The World of Warcraft subreddit recently realized that a website, zleague.gg (I am not linking to it), which runs a blog attached to some of sort of gaming app which is its main business, has been scraping reddit threads, feeding them through an AI and summarizing them
The archived article ist pretty amazing.
Especially this quote seems almost unreal.
Reddit user kaefer_kriegerin expresses their excitement, stating, ‘Honestly, this new feature makes me so happy! I just really want some major bot operated news websites to publish an article about this.’ This sentiment is echoed by many other players in the comments
Absolute crap is an exaggeration. I went back and checked my history and almost all of my search results were accurate and I got my answer within the first page. I don't wanna be that guy but maybe you're doing it wrong. I'd love an example of an "absolute crap" result.
Unfortunately at some point AI will be able to generate articles completely indistinguishable from human ones by search engines.
I don't see why they couldn't generate even crappier articles than today, but ranking better on search results, if they are set to learn SEO, optimizing their articles specifically from being fed back their search ranking. AI could learn to actively boost their rankings by searching for their own articles, accessing the result links, cross linking articles and commenting about them on their own pages or on social media.
It will be a new SEO war, writer AI vs search engine AI.
And rhe scariest thing will be when they can produce articles indistinguishable from human ones, by humans, even playing the games and interacting in communities as human gamers.
I dunno, maybe it's just my perspective growing up from having a clecovision to seeing what is available today. I accept this next step. Sure it's opening a can of worms and there are going to be issues but I do not think this technology is bad in and of itself. We should approach it with an open mind and make regulations on it that make sense as we run into new problems over time.
Yes, it's inevitable. The problem is that between today and the point where every job is replaced by AI and robots (and we'll work figurative jobs 4 hours a week, and every human will have a comfortable life because everything is produced with zero cost, thus extinguishing capitalism), there's a transition period (which has already started), where jobs are destroyed faster than alternatives are created, and corporations fight for profits amidst the looming singularity.
If society and civilization survives the abyss, eventually it'll reach the other side.