<story><title>G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics</title><url>https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homami</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t lie either. I just spit out words that is in alignment with my mental model for optimizing my future.</text></item><item><author>gwright</author><text>I think it confuses things immensely to anthropomorphize large language models. LLMs don&amp;#x27;t lie or tell the truth they just spit out text that is in alignment with the training model.  Don&amp;#x27;t give them agency they don&amp;#x27;t have.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>Those 60 people can have a new job: fact checking the lies that the new ais produce</text></item><item><author>boesboes</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the natural evolution of content marketing &amp;amp; SEO. I work at an IT company where we have ~15 ppl building and managing a few SaaS apps for the travel industry, and we have 50-60 ppl doing marketing as a service for our customers.&lt;p&gt;They write page after page of content that barely get read. It all just exists to make the google bot happy. And that works. They bring in more customers &amp;amp; revenue apparently. (honestly, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if it&amp;#x27;s all wasted and the added revenue is due to the better website and backoffice, but what do i know.)&lt;p&gt;So it seems only natural to have AI generate that content for the Google bot and stop wasting all this effort. Obviously I can&amp;#x27;t prove nobody reads this content, but seriously.. A landing page about hot-tubs and how cool it is to have one in your holiday home? Doubt that anyone actually reads that..&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I guess my point is also: it&amp;#x27;s already flooded with crap, just look at al the blog spam for things like &amp;#x27;how to start nginx&amp;#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svaha1728</author><text>“First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are…&lt;p&gt;But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what one does is barbaric.”
— Ryszard Kapuściński</text></comment>
<story><title>G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics</title><url>https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homami</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t lie either. I just spit out words that is in alignment with my mental model for optimizing my future.</text></item><item><author>gwright</author><text>I think it confuses things immensely to anthropomorphize large language models. LLMs don&amp;#x27;t lie or tell the truth they just spit out text that is in alignment with the training model.  Don&amp;#x27;t give them agency they don&amp;#x27;t have.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>Those 60 people can have a new job: fact checking the lies that the new ais produce</text></item><item><author>boesboes</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the natural evolution of content marketing &amp;amp; SEO. I work at an IT company where we have ~15 ppl building and managing a few SaaS apps for the travel industry, and we have 50-60 ppl doing marketing as a service for our customers.&lt;p&gt;They write page after page of content that barely get read. It all just exists to make the google bot happy. And that works. They bring in more customers &amp;amp; revenue apparently. (honestly, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if it&amp;#x27;s all wasted and the added revenue is due to the better website and backoffice, but what do i know.)&lt;p&gt;So it seems only natural to have AI generate that content for the Google bot and stop wasting all this effort. Obviously I can&amp;#x27;t prove nobody reads this content, but seriously.. A landing page about hot-tubs and how cool it is to have one in your holiday home? Doubt that anyone actually reads that..&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I guess my point is also: it&amp;#x27;s already flooded with crap, just look at al the blog spam for things like &amp;#x27;how to start nginx&amp;#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwright</author><text>Maybe you are a large language model?</text></comment>