Similar to asbestos or unexploded munitions, the fallout of the LLM era will persist long after the apps are abandoned, because their outputs have been snuck into the corpus by copy-pasting fools.
The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.
The longer chatbots force themselves into every workflow, the longer it will take to decontaminate.
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PJ Coffey - They/Them
3. "Informational Microplastics" - the artefacts invariably produced as a function of how these models work will be present undetected in Scientific journals and web pages. "ScamTech" will doubtless have web pages generated to "answer" searches with pages of bland, subtly incorrect, blather.
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How much research and authoritative information is already lost to digital rot, and DOGEshit/MAGA vandalism?
An overworked teacher who starts using AI to make up for the lack of time they have to prepare. A malicious kid who poisons the Scots Wikipedia. A lazy uni student who fudges some figures in a study because they want to party, and no-one will...
https://bsky.app/profile/tuomaspernu.bsky.social/post/3ls7kz7di422x
I really wish the small community keeping gopher alive would use that as an opportunity to bring more people in.
I think we can salvage the idea of a "global village" and shared knowledgebase by transplanting them somewhere inhospitable to content slop but there would need to be agreements.
They'll be in the middle of trying to stop a runaway train and suddenly hit step six, which tells them how to train a dragon.