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(noun) a brain-rotting vision of our artificial future
Strange images of a slimy pink Jesus made of prawns probably weren't what OpenAI had in mind when it warned that artificial intelligence could destroy civilization. But that's what happens when you put new technology in the hands of the public and tell them they can make whatever they want. Two years into the generative AI revolution, we have reached the age of neglect.
The prevalence of low-quality synthetic content e.g Shrimp Jesus Mostly intentional, designed via outlandish claims for commercial or syndication purposes. In March, Researchers from Stanford and Georgetown universities I found that Facebook's algorithm was actually being compromised by spam from text-to-image models like Dall-E and Midjourney. the “Crazy dirty Facebook AI“X account maintained its current balance. A favorite film in the run-up to the US election showed Donald Trump bravely saving kittens.
But the failure may also be an unintended consequence of AI models trained on AI-generated texts — a form of inbreeding of the data set whose unfortunate outbreeding has been compared to that of the House of Representatives. Habsburg.
Accelerator experts will tell you that this is just a bump on the road to exciting new user-generated AI content. San Francisco startup Fable Studio has announced a Netflix-style streaming platform for AI movies. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says people can share an “incredible amount of content” on the music service now that the cost of making music is close to zero.
The question is whether quality controls will decrease as the cost of construction decreases. Note the similarity of slob to spam, another form of nonsense that is easily distributed over the Internet.
AI creation watermarks would help combat this. Over time, sloppy content may naturally fade away, lacking interest. Instead, content that requires no effort or cost will destroy online information sharing and trust forever. Jesus Shrimp could be just the beginning.
