Comment by riskable
6 days ago
> AI-generated slop
This phrase is kind of interesting to me because it implies that everything AI-generated is "slop". What happens when the AI is generating decent content?
Like, what if we develop AI to the point where the most insightful, funny, or downright useful content is AI-generated? Will we still be calling it, "AI-generated slop"?
Now that the machines are coming for the white collar, the Luddites those same people once mocked are starting to look more reasonable.
In the end the intelligence revolution will be a net benefit to society. In the short term there will be untold suffering.
Let me rephrase that: The machines are coming for bullshit jobs. They're so good at generating bullshit that anyone who generates bullshit for a living needs to be worried.
Only problem is that some huge percentage of white collar work is bullshit. It's no secret. We all know it and accept it.
How many of us have spent weeks or months (or years!) of our lives generating documents that end up going into a black hole (e.g. Sharepoint), never to be read by anyone ever? How many of us have generated presentations that only exist to explain to management what they're supposed to already know? How many of us put together spreadsheets, dashboards, or similar in order to visualize data that doesn't need to be visualized?
We spend our days reading and writing emails that ultimately end up being inconsequential. We waste endless amounts of our time in meetings. Days and weeks and months go by where we "did stuff" that ultimately didn't end up being practical for any purpose.
The people that actually get things done are paid the least and looked down upon. Yet they're the ones that are most likely to survive with their jobs after this "AI revolution."
Everything is bullshit, some is just better or worse bullshit. LLMs have taken AI generated bullshit from 'laughably bad' to 'often good enough' in what, two years? Soon their bullshit will be better than yours and mine. And that's... well, that's a thing.
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I can't speak for everyone but personally, that would be fantastic. It's already magical, having a mostly-accurate oracle on my laptop that takes up the same space as a TV series but that I can literally converse with and that knows a surprising amount of everything. If it could close the loop to apply the same self-reflection that humans can do, it'd be better than most of us at everything.
My beef is with AI slop, not AI content. Bring on genuinely good AI content, and send me to live on a farm in the country.