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Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It‘s like they‘re releasing the manual for what they‘re doing.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s like a free ride when you’ve already paid

[–] karika@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's like a good advice that you just didn't take

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A traffic jam when you're already late

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

generative Alanis Intelligence

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The call is coming from inside the house.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's in the fracking ship!!

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google: "how dare someone else be better at ruining the internet than us"

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Facebook: “Hold my beer. I’ll show you who’s the real cancer of the internet.”

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think twitter took the throne

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I disagree, you can completely avoid both FB and Twitter. You’re not going to find any valuable info on either, except maybe some cutting edge current event things on Twitter. If either of them were completely wiped tomorrow my life would be unchanged.

Google on the other hand used to be a great resource for finding good info, but that’s ruined and getting worse as we speak. I’d argue its decline is significantly more impactful than what’s happened to FB/Twitter. It impacts me on a daily basis.

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Ok yeah, I think you're right. Plus Google is everywhere

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

LLM is the insanely productive content creator. We can't say how much of the web is generated by it at any moment (and that's ignoring older copypaste articles), but the organic material one wants to prioritise in machine learning gets significantly reduced. This tech, if not isolated from it's learning material, is predictably falling into a feedback loop, and at each cycle it is going to get worse.

Surprisingly, pre LLM-boom datasets can probably become more valuable than contemporary ones.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 2 years ago

Garbage in, garbage out

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

I remember reading that from 2021-2023, LLMs generated more text than all humans had published combined - so arguably, actually human generated text is going to be a rarity

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

This person already has a vague sounding meeting on their calendar from an HR rep, their supervisor, and maybe a VP. To align vision and expectations.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 18 points 2 years ago
[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ironic.

""Manipulation of human likeness and falsification of evidence underlie the most prevalent tactics in real-world cases of misuse," the researchers conclude. "Most of these were deployed with a discernible intent to influence public opinion, enable scam or fraudulent activities, or to generate profit.""

Who could have seen that coming? But in all seriousness, this is exactly why so many people have been so vehemently opposed to generative AI. It's not because it can't be useful. It's literally because of how it is actively being used.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What's the reverse of Obama giving Obama a medal?

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Obama taking it back from Obama? It may as well be the same picture.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

"Google looking for a different guy to blame for search enshitifiaction when internal documents point to them ruining it long before ai was a problem"

[–] wunami@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

We're all trying to find the guy who did this!

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Isn't Google now just pointing on someone else ruining the net?

[–] psin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's AI, not google, reddit, musk, meta....just AI

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

The paper: "I'm gonna nail you, sucker. I'm gonna grind you up"

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

they knew…