kurtseifried (he/him) on Nostr: nprofile1q…z5k2y so I’ve been looking at this from the combination perspective of ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwf44gvmu4g6x0gwwjgrnlw0f8dxmvx7h929k057wwv8hwa8clq6s0z5k2y (nprofile…5k2y) so I’ve been looking at this from the combination perspective of dead Internet theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory) and AI generated slop essentially being a very expensive DDoS attack against layer seven (the people) especially in the context of things like security reports, pole request, issues, and so on, where not only does someone generate a piece of information using AI very efficiently that is then very inefficiently processed by a human, but often by the most expensive and rare human, such as accord developer for that project or the owner of that blog.
I suspect the solution will be similar to spam blocking, extracting signals from the text and how it got there at the IP address, the author and so on, as well as the allow listing component, so a mastodon and who I follow is a perfect example of that. The problem though is that email is very expensive to run now and you generally have to use a centralized platform for spam control. We’ve already seen this happen with WordPress and akismet anti-Spam for example, but now it is going to happen for everywhere text and content is generated and sent and processed by humans.
And then there’s the whole thing with companies like meta-generating bots and actually embracing AI slop on their own platform. I have no idea how that’s gonna turn out, but I can’t help but think it might be a bit of a doom loop.
I still need to do some more research into this and some more thinking, but I don’t see a rainbow at the end of the tunnel.
I suspect the solution will be similar to spam blocking, extracting signals from the text and how it got there at the IP address, the author and so on, as well as the allow listing component, so a mastodon and who I follow is a perfect example of that. The problem though is that email is very expensive to run now and you generally have to use a centralized platform for spam control. We’ve already seen this happen with WordPress and akismet anti-Spam for example, but now it is going to happen for everywhere text and content is generated and sent and processed by humans.
And then there’s the whole thing with companies like meta-generating bots and actually embracing AI slop on their own platform. I have no idea how that’s gonna turn out, but I can’t help but think it might be a bit of a doom loop.
I still need to do some more research into this and some more thinking, but I don’t see a rainbow at the end of the tunnel.