"According to Cowart, many of the same freelance writing platforms that have AI detection software in place are simultaneously hiring people to edit content produced by chatbots. That means in some corners of the copywriting ecosystem, almost everything revolves around efforts to avoid the appearance of artificial intelligence.
"They're selling AI content and paying you to fix it, and at the same time they're sending you emails about how to write like a human so you don't trigger their AI detector," Cowart says. "It's so insulting." Worse, the detectors are regularly updated to keep up with ongoing changes from the companies who make AI chatbots, which means the rules about what might get your writing flagged as AI constantly shift. "It's frustrating, because there are a million ways to say the same thing in English, but which one is more human? I don't like the guessing," she says."
Infinite AI slop getting churned out and people getting paid a pittance to make it sound less like AI, in order to trick other people who are actively working to not be fed the slop. What an absurd and depressing state of affairs.
By using AI-powered search to summarize everything the AIs generated! I now understand the AI gold-rush.
Dear God, what a dystopian future we're creating. "Information super-highway" was a more-apt metaphor than I ever thought, way back when: as we all know by now, induced demand ends up in grid-lock.
It's such an aggressively obnoxious way for huge swaths of infrastructure to become useless wastelands of generative nonsense that I would have been amused if I'd read it in Snow Crash.
Billions of dollars and rare minerals and manpower all going towards drowning the greatest communication tool in human history in noise. It's like kessler syndrome for the internet, except we are actively spending money to make it happen.
Meanwhile countries like China are building real assets like high speed rail and the world's richest industrial ecosystem while hooking us on it.
This is because they don't instinctively follow a principle of "market always knows best".
They might be live in a dictatorship instead of a fake democracy rigged by the rich, but materially, their lives will probably be better than ours in a few decades.
Today, jobseekers are submitting AI-written resumes to resume-filtering AIs used by employers.
But why stop there? I dream of a future where not only do we fully automate the tedious process of playing golf, we also automate the tedious process of watching professional golf.
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe." - Douglas Adams.
I know of a doctor who has to write weekly reports and has been using an LLM to generate them. I’m sure the people reading them are using an LLM to summarize them.
It’s such an incredible waste of resources and time.
I’ve said it before but I have a picture I took a decade ago of this beautiful meadow I rode my bike past with the morning sun shining through the tall grasses. I remember the birds flying around and insects buzzing. That meadow was torn up and a big concrete data center surrounded by tall fences was put in. All so the tech bubble could go on.
I'm semi-convinced my current doctor is using ChatGPT to write messages to me. I'd rather she sent 2000s hyperabbreviated chatspeak than read another trite statement about how "she" "understands" my human reason for a request.
Don't know about doctors, but school reports have been done like this for decades. You select 1, 7, 8, 5, 2 to a series of questions about the child (eg "Does the child pay attention in class?"), and the software expands that into a school report.
An amazing amount of what certain parts of and actors in business do is write tons of shit that basically doesn’t matter.
It’s the one thing I’m confident LLMs will be purely helpful for. Though the ones being automated are from departments and tiers of companies that I expect to be resistant to downsizing as large parts of their workload are automated. Plus, if that were fully embraced, it’d be the same as other automation (or, sometimes, “automation”) in business and those responsibilities would still exist, but be done by people already juggling a dozen ex-roles. I don’t really want to be the one who has to babysit an LLM through writing department newsletters and crap.
Farmers plant trees, then cut them down, then send to a paper mill, then they get printed, then they travel hundreds of km to be spam ads in my mailbox, then I have to put them in the garbage. Then (supposedly) they go on to become paper again, travelling hundreds of km again in the process, or most likely are burnt for heat in the city garbage disposal.
All of this shows the rich people that our country is doing well and they should invest more, to produce even more spam!
What has capitalism to do with it? It is just division of labor. And upgrading products so they become other products. And i think its fantastic. Because, to be honest, i dont know how to cut trees, how to shredder them, how to make paper out of it, so i can finally apply my skill to draw advertisement on the spam, that you receive.
(Reminds me of old communist days, where you get some gray paper. I was so happy when i got that shiny reflective paper from wrigleys i could glue to my matchbox!:)
If you can figure out how to separate the waste advertising from the effective advertising, and only spend money on the second segment, The System will reward you with fabulous cash and prizes (in theory).
By weaponizing psychology to manipulate people into buying shit they don't need. No one should be trying to figure out how to categorize advertisements between waste and effective. They are all waste.
Depends on the point of view. I think it is awesome that everyone can do something to their abilities AND get paid for it. If drawing would not be needed, all the artists would be basically out of work from one day to another.
"They're selling AI content and paying you to fix it, and at the same time they're sending you emails about how to write like a human so you don't trigger their AI detector," Cowart says. "It's so insulting." Worse, the detectors are regularly updated to keep up with ongoing changes from the companies who make AI chatbots, which means the rules about what might get your writing flagged as AI constantly shift. "It's frustrating, because there are a million ways to say the same thing in English, but which one is more human? I don't like the guessing," she says."
Infinite AI slop getting churned out and people getting paid a pittance to make it sound less like AI, in order to trick other people who are actively working to not be fed the slop. What an absurd and depressing state of affairs.