Gregory's ServerLoving the visual symbolism here. In case it's not obvious, yes, every one of these articles in the 'Programming' topic on Medium were very clearly written by ChatGPT, and my only recourse was to unsubscribe entirely.
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@ben @rodhilton I'm seeing this occur on #Amazon as well, where some niche books are obviously being augmented with generated text. The low quality wastes the readers time and money. I've stopped buying newly released, unreviewed books because of it  @ben @rodhilton it will self-amplify as training sets begin to be overwhelmingly generated content, too @ben @rodhilton It's a crisis of overproduction, and we know what happens next (it's not even close to what Marx predicted): https://worldofwonders.substack.com/p/large-language-models-and-the-overproduction @rodhilton I'd always thought that the "dry as saltine, one-sentence-per-paragraph, milquetoast first person, meanders around for 300 words and then repeats the topic sentence in lieu of an argument" Medium article was an unfortunate side effect of the way their promotion algorithm works. It turns out it's a house style that people desperately wanted to emulate once technology unleashed their creative potential! |
@rodhilton exactly. this is the point i think everyone’s been missing. so far all the narratives have been “look how much more content a single person can produce!” but in my mind it’s just spitting out garbage faster. just more to tune out IMO.