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The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact. Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. (www.wired.com)

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 32 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

Even AI doesnt want to consume AI slop...(that's why they're feeding it old books)

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

AI does not have wants.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

AKA LLMs will have progressively lower performance if retrained on LLM output. I guess that's more a need than a want :D

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

LLM output makes everything stupider, even LLMs.

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[–] SarahValentine@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago

Want can mean a state of lack, not just an animal desire.

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