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Comment by k-i-r-t-h-i

2 days ago

Easy to hate on this, but the existence of these kinds of things is so fascinating. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of people are out there generating AI click bait because people or system somewhere allows / encourages / pays for this market to exist

They are fascinating in the same sense road accidents or fatal diseases are - some people might like to watch them, but overall there is nothing good about this.

That’s not what’s happening here. The get-rich-quick grifters started selling AI slop manuals. It’s like saying brands that spend a lot on ads are successful. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

And the feedback loop means we’re doing fuzzing on the human brain! If we can just take the human out of the loop and let the AI post and use a genetic algorithm to tweak its content, we’ll all be getting rooted in no time.