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1492 sats \ 12 replies \ @kepford 9 Jul \ on: Are you downzapping suspected AI posts and comments? AskSN
I have been doing this for a while. Not so much recently because I mostly ignore posts not created by "trusted" stackers. Honestly, I don't care if its an AI post at this point if its good. Many people act like bots(NPCs) anyway. Most people on the Internet at least.
Same. If a post has something worth responding to, it doesn’t make much difference if it’s a bot of some sort.
I ignore comments that don’t seem very thoughtful, regardless of what made them.
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You know what I'm finding the more I use AI and test things out? Its the humans that suck at using it. Its a tool and like many tools it requires a bit of skill to use effectively. Bad input will get back output. That's when I can tell its AI. When the "prompter" is so lazy they haven't learned how to use it well.
Given really good prompts and focused input I'm pretty sure most people can't spot the simulated intelligence. Its not really just artificial but rather a simulation of intelligence. The more I learn about this tech the less scary it is and the more I can see it being eventually very useful.
Is it going to be used to create slop? Yep. Its gonna get way worse but I'm gonna adapt. No fear. Adapt and thrive.
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Yeah I'm seeing way more emojis everywhere and it just tells me that whoever is using these AIs don't really understand how to make it talk like a human and for that matter don't seem to know themselves how regular people talk, in English at least.
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Oh yeah. The over-use of emoji is a sign of AI gen stuff.
Most people don't seem to even try to give the context needed to simulate an actual person. When you do that you get better results.
For example, if one wanted to imitate me you'd need to throw in a lot of mistakes.
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I wonder what kind of godforsaken training data resulted in them using so much emoji
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That makes sense to me. It’s not uncommon for a person to be trying to simulate how other people do certain things while writing, so an AI doing that part probably doesn’t sound much less authentic.
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Yep.
SN reminds me of the very early days of Twitter. Long before "everyone" was on it. I remember following about 50 people in the city near me. I met all of them IRL and it was a massive help to me in my career. I learned so much from these people. It was an online circle of people that shared a common interest. It wasn't about likes or clicks.
SN is much better but one reason is because its rare to find a site like this today. I hope @k00b realizes this. :)
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I've written this before but my problem with Nostr isn't the tech but the way people use it. IMO for SN to grow without destroying its current appeal to me would for it to have many communities. Not just grow the current one. I know that was part of the idea behind territories.
But I'd be fine if it just had gradual growth vs. massive growth. Twitter's value to be in the early days is completely gone now. Nostr is better but not like SN. Not even close.
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I've written this before but my problem with Nostr isn't the tech but the way people use it.
We have a few new builders in PlebLab working on some interesting Nostr tech taking it in a different direction, doing my best to get them to think outside the current trends.
But I'd be fine if it just had gradual growth vs. massive growth.
Same, but I suspect it will be an overnight sensation.
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In my opinion Nostr is full of BS and nonsense. Why? Because there is no pay-to-post.
Without pay-to-post there is no incentive, there is no consequence.
So it's full of bots and LARPers and people wasting time.
The last thing I'm interested in is the next picture of 'someone's breakfast' or 'their coffee'. I could give a ****.
Nostr is an interesting idea... but in its current implementation it adds almost nothing new, and is a huge turnoff to the vast majority of 'normie' people. An interesting idea yes, but completely broken implementation.
SN far superior, nostr in its current state and implementation is indefensible.