<story><title>The expanding dark forest and generative AI</title><url>https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>&amp;gt; You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven&amp;#x27;t seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Marketers, influencers, and growth hackers will set up OpenAI → Zapier pipelines that auto-publish a relentless and impossibly banal stream of LinkedIn #MotivationMonday posts, “engaging” tweet  threads, Facebook outrage monologues, and corporate blog posts.&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s a bright side if people can&amp;#x27;t compete with machines on stuff like that. People shouldn&amp;#x27;t be doing that shit. It&amp;#x27;s bad for them. When somebody makes a living (or thinks they&amp;#x27;re making a living, or hopes to make a living) pumping out bullshit motivational quotes, carefully constructed outrage takes, or purportedly expert content about topics they know nothing about, it&amp;#x27;s the spiritual equivalent of them doing backbreaking work breathing in toxic dust and fumes.&lt;p&gt;We can hate them for choosing to pollute the world with that kind of work, but they&amp;#x27;re still human beings being tortured in a mental coal mine. Even if they choose it over meaningful work like teaching, nursing, or working in a restaurant. Even if they choose it for shallow, greedy reasons. Even if they choose it because they prefer lying and cheating over honest work. No matter why they&amp;#x27;re doing it and whose fault it is, they&amp;#x27;re still human beings being wasted and ruined for no good reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>Unfortunately, the price will go down pushing the supply&amp;#x2F;demand curve out, and we&amp;#x27;ll get ever more garbage. Some of it will be dangerous or addictive to susceptible portions of society, mostly just boring and stupid to the rest of us.&lt;p&gt;Wait for first kid who dies trying an AI generated &amp;quot;challenge&amp;quot; or the first violent mob killing caused by AI generated outrage porn. AI generated video porn may look like triple breasted whores of Eroticon6 today, but with sufficient influencer content (playground videos) and porn (dungeon) footage, I suspect you can generate more than enough novel and relevant (child S&amp;amp;M) porn for everyone.</text></comment>
<story><title>The expanding dark forest and generative AI</title><url>https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>&amp;gt; You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven&amp;#x27;t seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Marketers, influencers, and growth hackers will set up OpenAI → Zapier pipelines that auto-publish a relentless and impossibly banal stream of LinkedIn #MotivationMonday posts, “engaging” tweet  threads, Facebook outrage monologues, and corporate blog posts.&lt;p&gt;I think there&amp;#x27;s a bright side if people can&amp;#x27;t compete with machines on stuff like that. People shouldn&amp;#x27;t be doing that shit. It&amp;#x27;s bad for them. When somebody makes a living (or thinks they&amp;#x27;re making a living, or hopes to make a living) pumping out bullshit motivational quotes, carefully constructed outrage takes, or purportedly expert content about topics they know nothing about, it&amp;#x27;s the spiritual equivalent of them doing backbreaking work breathing in toxic dust and fumes.&lt;p&gt;We can hate them for choosing to pollute the world with that kind of work, but they&amp;#x27;re still human beings being tortured in a mental coal mine. Even if they choose it over meaningful work like teaching, nursing, or working in a restaurant. Even if they choose it for shallow, greedy reasons. Even if they choose it because they prefer lying and cheating over honest work. No matter why they&amp;#x27;re doing it and whose fault it is, they&amp;#x27;re still human beings being wasted and ruined for no good reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thenerdhead</author><text>Most of the people you describe have little to no moral compass. Most of the time they are above the accepted morals of society (a very Nietzsche perspective). These are the marketers of the world who encourage you to &amp;quot;pollute the web&amp;quot; and the media manipulators whose secrets are to &amp;quot;con the conmen&amp;quot;. The reality is, they make more money than any of us and sleep just fine every night because they know that nobody seeks honesty or reality anymore. The more unbelievable of headlines and articles, the more it warps our compass.&lt;p&gt;No sane person doing this will push reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.</text></comment>