Comment by roxolotl
1 day ago
This is my big fear. We’re going to end up in a world where information that isn’t common is significantly more difficult to find than it is today.
1 day ago
This is my big fear. We’re going to end up in a world where information that isn’t common is significantly more difficult to find than it is today.
It's going to be like the pre-internet dark ages, but worse. Back then you only didn't find the information. Now, you find unlimited information, but it is all wrong.
Content from before the AI Cambrian explosion is going to be treated like low-background steel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
I don't know, this sounds a lot like in the late 90s when we heard a lot about how anyone could put information on the internet and that you shouldn't trust what you read online.
Well it turns out you can manage just fine.
You shouldn't blindly trust anything. Not what you read, not what people say.
Using LLMs effectively is a skill too, and that does involve deciding when and how to verify information.
The difference is in scale. Back then, only humans were sometimes putting up false information, and other humans had a chance to correct it. Now, machines are writing infinitely more garbage than humans can ever read. Search engines like Google are already effectively unusable.
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>> Well it turns out you can manage just fine.
You missed the full context: you would never be able to trust a bunch of amateur randos self-policing their content. Turns out it's not perfect but better than a very small set of professionals; usually there's enough expertise out there, it's just widely distributed. The challenge this time is 1. the scale, 2. the rate of growth, 3. the decline in expertise.
>> Using LLMs effectively is a skill too, and that does involve deciding when and how to verify information.
How do you verify when ALL the sources are share the same AI-generated root, and ALL of the independent (i.e. human) experts have aged-out and no longer exist?
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> Well it turns out you can manage just fine.
The internet has ravaged society with disinformation. It's a literal battlefield. How can you have come till this conclusion?
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