Just today I googled (and duck duck go'd?) alternatives for Discord (because reasons). Entire search results page was "X top alternatives to Discord." It was all blog posty kind of stuff with an "author".
And like 90% of it was written by indian and african sounding names. These were clearly "content farms" with low paid labour and bad grammar, or just authors with nothing better to do than write Yet Another Blog Post about Top Discord Alternatives. Sure, they weren't generated, but the fact that a human was involved in creating something crappy doesn't make it better or unique.
What I was actually looking for was unique content. Either an actual curated list of alternatives (NOT a blog post they update every year). Or an extract from a book where someone posted fiction about a fictional Discord user that meets aliens. Or comments in a forum, or a link to a song-lyrics website for a Weird Al parody song about discord, a website dedicated to expounding the virtues cutting the discord cord, a link to a PDF where someone saved a IRC chat server's logs about a person switching from discord to IRC, or an "IRC-MF do you speak it" crass website, or something. Anything but a damn content blog post by some third-world content creator or hipster-blog-poster from the 1st world.
What I got was garbage. Human-level garbage. Garbage that across hundreds of thousands of websites basically took a piece of content and expanded it with every known combination of words, sentences, and mini-stories and pasted it on a stupid blog post with an author.
And this garbage is what this AI is training on so we can have content farms make more copies of itself with more variations and in different languages now, all so we can pay Google et al attention-coins to magically sift through all that garbage and present us with something a little less garbage-y for us to consume.
Just today I googled (and duck duck go'd?) alternatives for Discord (because reasons). Entire search results page was "X top alternatives to Discord." It was all blog posty kind of stuff with an "author".
And like 90% of it was written by indian and african sounding names. These were clearly "content farms" with low paid labour and bad grammar, or just authors with nothing better to do than write Yet Another Blog Post about Top Discord Alternatives. Sure, they weren't generated, but the fact that a human was involved in creating something crappy doesn't make it better or unique.
What I was actually looking for was unique content. Either an actual curated list of alternatives (NOT a blog post they update every year). Or an extract from a book where someone posted fiction about a fictional Discord user that meets aliens. Or comments in a forum, or a link to a song-lyrics website for a Weird Al parody song about discord, a website dedicated to expounding the virtues cutting the discord cord, a link to a PDF where someone saved a IRC chat server's logs about a person switching from discord to IRC, or an "IRC-MF do you speak it" crass website, or something. Anything but a damn content blog post by some third-world content creator or hipster-blog-poster from the 1st world.
What I got was garbage. Human-level garbage. Garbage that across hundreds of thousands of websites basically took a piece of content and expanded it with every known combination of words, sentences, and mini-stories and pasted it on a stupid blog post with an author.
And this garbage is what this AI is training on so we can have content farms make more copies of itself with more variations and in different languages now, all so we can pay Google et al attention-coins to magically sift through all that garbage and present us with something a little less garbage-y for us to consume.