OK I will give it a go. West_pac is not a member here so no holds barred.
Comment (by u/west_pac):
Well right now the internet is largely built on the idea that it is at once a repository for human knowledge, a forum for discussion, and a platform for media.
All false. Not a good start.
My assessment is that the first two are being eroded, and that this will continue to the point that they'll basically be made useless.
Also false.
Once that happens, the internet will be a platform for media and little else, so streaming services basically.
That happened years agoThe majority of internet traffic is porn. This has been the case since the 90's
Even then, how much of that will you trust?
Well, none of it Never have, not starting now.
How will you know if it isn't all a deepfake?
Because we are all at liberty to get up off our collective butts and actually check for real. But no. Lets sit and wait for the cute nurse with the spoon. What a lazy entitled moron the writer is.
Because once we get there it really ceases to have any value beyond sheer entertainment factor.
that already happened last century. Geez back to the 1950's with you.
We've already seen steps in this direction with the kind of websites that pop up when you search for things like "how do I change the oil in my car?". Instead of getting useful results, you get bot generated clickfarm sites that have essentially made google useless.
Since that doesn't happen to me, I am wondering about this guys search history. But ever willing, I used that exact search term and found lots of general instructions and a lot more requests for make/model/year for clarity. If this loon is serious, he has a problem.
Right now these scrape info from other websites, but there's a creeping phenomena in which the bots are scraping other bot-created pages because they can't tell the difference.
That is not how it works. That is not how anything works.
This is what we're going to continue to see with AI,
Wheeled out the crystal ball, have we? Predicting the future now, is it?
it won't answer the question,
Correct. Because that is not what it is for, why would anyone imagine such nonsense?
it will just either ramble incoherently or it will tell you that you shouldn't drive a car because it's learned that cars are bad.
Not entirely sure what this idiot is claiming. He outsmarted Siri? That is a feat accomplished by cletus the slack jawed yokel. of simpsons fame. Who is telling me not to drive a car? Nobody. That's who.
We aren't creating better search algorithms fast enough to deal with this and it's already driving disengagement from the web.
Oh the algorithms are getting better in leaps and bounds over the years. Your problem really is that you are not getting the results you want. You could, of course, adjourn to the religious site of your preference. Lots of little altar boys to browse there. But no, instead you choose to vomit your ignorance on the rest of us for no reason other than google will not serve up your particular flavour of porn. Guess what. The internet is not your personal toy. Deal with it.
People underestimate, or are unaware of the coming crisis with AI.
Wrong.
They think it will be this thing that we can use to enhance old WW2 footage or to drive their car for them, but what it will do instead is just make everything fuzzy and ****.
Wrong, wrong.
AI will write and print books but they'll suck,
Wrong.
it will deepfake news broadcasts to the point that there will be no good way to transmit information,
Fantasy.
it will create newspaper sites that don't actually exist but will have hundreds of AI journalists writing for it all reporting on things that never happened.
I do not look at the existing one's nor have done for decades. How can this affect me?
AI is about to completely eradicate our ability to discern reality on the internet, and that will spill out into the real world.
Hahaha. How cute. You think reality is on the internet. Too funny
I'm not sure what we're going to do about this, honestly.
If you were honest, really honest. you would admit that you will do nothing. Again.
I don't think anyone is thinking about how it will affect public trust in information.
Blatant lie. There is a crapton of multidisciplinary boffins considering it
I don't know of any solutions being developed.
Then either your imagination is lacking, you are unqualified google or you are religious. Pick one. Or all three, I guess.
One way we could potentially fix it is by developing ways to verify that no AI was involved, but it's hard to envision how that would go without being extremely privacy-invasive or potentially exploited by AI.
THE most ignorant paragraph yet
Too late
this **** has the potential to push us back into the dark ages as a species.
That is what you desire. You really want a new dark age. Put those uppity wimmin back in th kitchen cookin bread and babies. Yeah, thats where they belong.
We could well have to go back to machine-printed books and newspapers, distributed by hand only. It may be necessary to physically dumb down our technology so that we can trust it again. Until AI is made illegal globally, there's a good chance that things will get very bad before they get better.
30+ years in the printing game here so I know this is a total load.
