The final nail in the coffin is ChatGPT, the greatest spam generation tool ever made. I imagine bots, SEO gurus, and the like are having a great time now.
If blogging is dead because of AI, videos are not far behind. I'm already curating away a couple channels a week on YouTube that are pure AI spam, either videos that just steal content from others and use AI to drive a collection of clips (which will only get more sophisticated) or put a TTS-driven monologue over something, where the Text being converted To Speech might as well be AI-driven.
And the human videos are already so optimized for The Algorithm that a good deal of them might as well just cut out the middleman and be written by an AI, for the AI. ("This Breaks the Internet - Reacting to Reaction Videos Reacting To Reaction Videos". You can see the thumbnail already, can't you?)
Yeah, they're behind for now, but all the infrastructure is there for this to explode the instant they're not. Video operations putting out dozens of crap videos a week with nonfunctional "hacks" and all sorts of similar things will be in an arms race to pivot to these things and there's no chance the video site's moderation will be able to keep up with this in the end.
Nobody has to delete the authentic content, they just have to outcompete it by many orders of magnitude. Then not only is the inauthentic content all over all the possible routes you might find content, people stop looking for it entirely.
Just wait when they'll be able to create from scratch credible AI video stars and influencers then put them one after another on social media. They will do it, no doubt about that: free advertising with no perks/bribes is just too tempting.
We had plenty of spam before chatgpt. The spammers clearly don't care if it looks like seo spam nonesense. Eventually for the fresh internet users of every generation, that will be all they know.
jerf|3 years ago
And the human videos are already so optimized for The Algorithm that a good deal of them might as well just cut out the middleman and be written by an AI, for the AI. ("This Breaks the Internet - Reacting to Reaction Videos Reacting To Reaction Videos". You can see the thumbnail already, can't you?)
Yeah, they're behind for now, but all the infrastructure is there for this to explode the instant they're not. Video operations putting out dozens of crap videos a week with nonfunctional "hacks" and all sorts of similar things will be in an arms race to pivot to these things and there's no chance the video site's moderation will be able to keep up with this in the end.
pjc50|3 years ago
Nobody has to delete the authentic content, they just have to outcompete it by many orders of magnitude. Then not only is the inauthentic content all over all the possible routes you might find content, people stop looking for it entirely.
masterof0|3 years ago
squarefoot|3 years ago
wintermutestwin|3 years ago
Google search is increasingly broken. Eventually, we will need AI to derive value from the internet by filtering all the crap out.
asdff|3 years ago