AI generated content, which now includes incredibly convincing videos of people, will grow exponentially over the next weeks, months, and years.

At some point, the majority of the content you see will be fake, and any usefulness or connection to humans will be lost.

Even information that you might have previously been able to confirm from a trusted source can (and will) be manipulated in some way, making verification impossible.

This lack of verification, along with the speed at which fake content can now be generated, will make it impossible to defend against.

Even the world of art and communication has been tainted, serving no connection to real people through this digital hellscape.

To that end, when will the internet be so untrustworthy, “soulless”, and useless to you that it crosses the tipping point?

EDIT: Ok, holy fuck. There’s actually a term for what I’m describing: “The Dead Internet Theory”

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Reddit became too corporate, blocked 3rd-party apps, restricted views that didn’t align with their advertisers, sold user content to AI farms, etc. That’s why I’m here. There will always be a place like Lemmy, where AI-generated content will be filtered through real, intelligent, moral, empathetic people. So we’ll continue to block and analyze and filter as much of the churn as we can…

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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      2 days ago

      There will always be a place like Lemmy, where AI-generated content will be filtered through real, intelligent, moral, empathetic people. So we’ll continue to block and analyze and filter as much of the churn as we can…

      As much as I appreciate the optimism, that’s not realistic seeing how fast technology is going.

      If you amped up indistinguishable-from-real bot activity by 1000 or a million times, there would be no effective filter. That’s what I know is coming, to every corner of the internet.

      Other options such as paywalling, invite-only, and other such barriers only serve to fragment and minimize the good that the internet can do for humanity.