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Re:The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit by CaptainFever on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:15AM (#38954204)
I can't really see a relevance between "we should spend more time with trusted people", which is an argument for restricting who can write to our online spaces, and "we should be unindexable and untrainable", which is an argument for restricting who can read our online spaces.

I still hold that moving to proprietary, informational-black-hole platforms like Discord is a bad thing. Sure, use platforms that don't allow guest writing access to keep out spam; but this doesn't mean you should restrict read access. One big example: Lobsters. Or better-curated search engines and indexes.

Re:The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit by krapp on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:46AM (#38954720)
Read access to humans means read access to AIs. We can't stop the cancer but we can at least try to slow its spread.
Re:The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit by CaptainFever on Thursday January 11, 2024 @10:54PM (#38963483)
This assumes that there are no legitimate uses to AI. This is clearly not true, so you can't really just equate the two. If you want better content, restrict writing, not reading. It's that simple.