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• @carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  Sturgeon's Law states 90% of everything is crap.  With the rise of generative AI the amount if crap on the internet will soon be closer to 99%. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @FrankPasquale@mastodon.social Frank Pasquale on mastodon

  “Google's new system is essentially plagiarism engine.  Its AI-generated summaries often copy text from websites word-for-word but place this content above source links, starving them of traffic.  It's a change that Google has been pushing for a long time.”  —  https://www.thever…

• @NatureMC@mastodon.online Petra van Cronenburg on mastodon

  @Techmeme Well, Etsy did nothing against so called handmade scam before AI ... so that doesn't surprise me.  So many artists and crafters closed their shop there.

• @badams@mastodon.social Barry Adams on mastodon

  Looks like SEMrush is switching from manual plagiarism to automated plagiarism, where this time they can blame the generative AI for their content being copied and derivative.  —  H/T @LilyRay

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  I wrote about the current convulsions gripping the web, and the part AI is playing in rebalancing its economies https://www.theverge.com/... [image]

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  this is my general theory though: success on the web today depends on leveraging scale — by corralling or sorting human-generated content — but AI models overwhelm human mass-production, and so in a way that is parasitical on the old web https://www.theverge.com/... [image]

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on x

  “A.I. is overwhelming the internet's capacity for scale” https://www.theverge.com/...

• @tariqkrim @tariqkrim on x

  Generative AI models are changing the economy of the web, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content. We're just beginning to see the effects of these changes. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @glenngabe Glenn Gabe on x

  The AI Editor position they cited sounds interesting..... oh boy.... “Expected output of 200 to 250 articles per week while working alongside our AI Content and SEO Strategist” https://www.theverge.com/... [image]

• @brooklynmarie Brooke Binkowski on x

  Now is the time of monsters. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @varunkrish Varun Krishnan on x

  AI is polluting the web with low quality content and spam. https://twitter.com/...

• @greglinden Greg Linden on x

  The biggest problem on the internet right now is the ubiquity of misinformation, propaganda, and scams. There is far too much crap. And there is far too little help from algorithms to help people find reliable information. https://twitter.com/...

• @hkesvani @hkesvani on x

  Great and damning piece from @jjvincent: https://www.theverge.com/...

• @mmitchell_ai @mmitchell_ai on x

  Agree with @soldni, *really* helpful piece from @jjvincent looking at the landscape of generated AI content. For those of you writing “Background” sections in papers discussing deployed generative systems, the first paragraph is a must-read. https://www.theverge.com/... https://t…

• @srchvrs Leo Boytsov on x

  “Over 140 major brands are paying for ads that end up on unreliable AI-written sites likely without their knowledge. 90% of the ads from major brands found on these AI-generated news sites were served by Google, in violation of the company's own policies.” https://www.technologyr…

• @accountabletech @accountabletech on x

  “The opaque nature of programmatic advertising has inadvertently turned major brands into unwitting supporters, unaware that their ad dollars indirectly fund these unreliable AI-generated sites,” said @jbruce218 of @Newsguardrating. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...

• @wavesblog @wavesblog on x

  « people are plentiful sources of misinformation, too, but if AI systems also choke out the platforms where human expertise currently thrives, then there will be less opportunity to remedy our collective errors » https://twitter.com/...

• @kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x

  The platforms and our clients will get better at identifying and filtering this stuff. The web will be fine https://twitter.com/...

• @chrismoranuk Chris Moran on x

  “In the end, Google might kill the ecosystem that created its value, or change it so irrevocably that its own existence is threatened.” https://www.theverge.com/...

• @josephfcox Joseph Cox on x

  ah yes, I'll go check meduza, one of the best outlets for understanding Russia in English language Oh great, they're just deepfaking shit now. Meduza just made it so, so easy for others to not trust their important work, or cry ‘deepfake’ on other material later https://twitter.c…

• @soldni Luca Soldaini on x

  very good & timely article by @jjvincent beside harms to minortitized populations, bland AI-generated content polluting the internet is one of the saddest effects of current wave of LLMs / image generation models https://www.theverge.com/...

• @benson_louise Louise Benson on x

  'AI-generated misinformation is insidious because it's often invisible. It's fluent but not grounded in real-world experience, and so it takes time and expertise to unpick.' https://twitter.com/...

• @wiczipedia Nina Jankowicz on x

  I wrote about learning I am the subject of deepfake pornography. I wasn't surprised, but I *was* frustrated with policymakers who have all but ignored an urgent AI problem that is already affecting many lives, including mine. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• r/singularity r on reddit

  AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born

• r/technology r on reddit

  AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born

• @brianroemmele Brian Roemmele on x

  The interesting pairing of advertisers and AI based content sites. This is a step change evolution from the classic cut-and-past content mill/listicle site traps that still gain upper end of advertising dollars, even tier one advertisers. As AI optimizes we will see more. https:/…

• @gsterling @gsterling on x

  Study finds mostly Google programmatic ads supporting low-quality AI-generated publisher sites that include plagiarism and misinformation. https://www.newsguardtech.com/ ...

• @newsguardrating @newsguardrating on x

  New: Some of the world's largest blue chip brands are unintentionally supporting the spread of unreliable AI-generated news websites, a NewsGuard analysis finds Read NewsGuard's exclusive report: https://www.newsguardtech.com/ ...

• @jbruce218 Jack Brewster on x

  New: Major brands are supporting the proliferation of unreliable AI-generated news and information sites by funneling programmatic ad dollars to the rapidly growing number of such sites, a @NewsGuardRating analysis has found h/t @ElisaXu7 and @ZBFishman https://www.newsguardtech.…