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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by devmor on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:21AM (#40927920)
I would say that this take was correct, just not in the way the detractors at the time intended. The danger was to the usefulness of the internet.

I have yet to see any benefit to society from GPT's improvements, but I do see the internet quickly becoming more and more unusable due to the inundation of machine-generated spam on nearly every communications platform.

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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by goatlover on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:33AM (#40928076)
By more unusable, do you mean more dead? As in LLMs are helping make the Dead Internet Theory real?
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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by devmor on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:37AM (#40928119)
In the most "doomer" possible view of my beliefs, yes, that'd be an accurate description.

I don't know if that will actually come true, of course - human society is pretty resilient in the face of its own self-caused adversity, but currently it does already extract a significant mental and emotional cost dealing with filtering out the "human mimics" on many platforms - especially search engines.

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