This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The web was already flooded with human generated spam, adding AI spam to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't find useful content on the vast majority of webpages.
What we really need is a better search engine, one that doesn't include low quality content... that might be something AI can help with.
Yes, but the sheer volume of trash these AIs can generate will be an even bigger problem that needs addressing.
That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.
Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.
Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...
...Ask Jeeves...
We'll see who's next.
The irony of that this post is done by @[email protected]
Bots and AI aren't the same thing. Bots are just automations, not necessarily making use of machine learning.
I saw someone unironically last month call Excel spreadsheet formulas "AI".
The term is rapidly approaching meaninglessness when used by anyone remotely non-technical. I'm probably going to miss an edge case here, but basically:
Classic AI = mostly search algorithms (Dijkstra, A*, etc), simple neural nets (e.g. perceptron) and prolog (to trivialise logic languages)
Modern AI = Machine Learning and the utilisation of those models trained by it. (Tensorflow, LLMs, etc)
Everything else = not AI, just technology.
And AI is automation too.
Lately I've been seeing more ai articles and videos on youtube. Sometimes, I look up tech issues and there's a video, I check it out and some of these videos are just forum posts uploaded text on the screen. There are whole channels taking popular online forum posts and gathering views that way.
Yes, so annoying. You read an article and later find the (steam) forum, reddit post or tweet that was turned into a whole article, just with more words.
Don't even get me started on having to watch a 10 minute video on YouTube that could have been a 3 sentence forum post.
"starting"? The net was ruined when yahoo directory failed and Google with their stupid algorithm and SEO and AdSense and monetisation came along
Ppphhht.
The internet ended the day AOL threw open its doors and allowed their users out of the walled garden.
I know, I was there.
Google had to happen, manually updating a registry of all site was unsustainable with the growth of the internet.
And the concept of SEO is actually older than the internet, "AAA Plumbing" from yellow pages was also optimized for the algorithm of the the telephone registry, which was simply alphabetical order. Just different algorithm and different scale.
Only fair that AI gets a turn now we've been ruining it for so long.
