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256 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 9h \ on: AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) AI
So the real problem with slop is that there are too many stupid people?
This is a thing that bothers me about the conversation: it's that the regulators and politicians claim ai tools are dangerous because there are lots of people who are too stupid to tell the difference.
John Oliver isn't duped by AI slop. It's obvious to him and his erudite audience, but the dumb schmucks on Facebook don't get it. They are going to be misled.
So the real problem with slop is that there are too many stupid people?
No. That's irrelevant. AI advances at breakneck speed - soon it will be good enough to dupe everyone. Yes, including you and me too.
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I agree. I was trying to point out a glaring problem in Oliver's approach. However, the current criticisms about ai slop in particular seem to be
- it's annoying
- it isn't genuine
- it dupes many people
Interestingly, I don't think the people falling for it is as relevant on SN. Stackers seem to have more issue with the tone and disingenuousness of ai slop than they do with the actual veracity of the content itself.
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Yeah, that's an issue if it becomes about "we need to intervene to protect the pleb against their stupidity, we know better what's good for them".
Thanks for pointing out this angle, I barely notice it anymore, consuming a lot of erudite/elitist media. That's quite Oliver's schtick when you pay attention to it—the mocking of perceived stupidity.
(the em dash above was just suggested to me by Grammarly's browser extension~~)
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Everyone is already afraid of em dashes making them look like ai.
The ai users will learn to scrub the em dashes and use whatever new thing the people think signify human-ness.
The send state is either judge things solely at face value...
Or (more likely, I think) we circle the wagons into our trusted groups and eventually everything we watch/listen to/read is signed by keys known to belong to trusted sources.
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