"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_opensource-aicoding-aiethics-activity-7367162627824730112-ni4Z

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TEXTPOCALYPSE: The proliferation of AI-generated text threatens to overwhelm the internet, making human-authored content increasingly rare. How will this deluge of machine-written language affect our ability to maintain meaningful communication? #AI #Textpocalypse #DigitalCommunication

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TEXTPOCALYPSE: The proliferation of AI-generated text threatens to overwhelm the internet, making human-authored content increasingly rare. How will this deluge of machine-written language affect our ability to discern authenticity and maintain meaningful communication?
#AI #Textpocalypse #DigitalCommunication
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ai-chatgpt-writing-language-models/673318/

Google is no longer indexing every web page—not to block fake news but to halt the rising tide of knockoff content. To counter the AI textpocalypse Google is pivoting to selective indexing of unique, authoritative, branded, and timely content.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_textpocalypse-search-google-activity-7221544882169937922-T2-3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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So you're a writer competing with AI. What's your SPM (stories per minute)?

"During the two years that BNN was active... surpassing The Chicago Tribune's self-reported audience....individual journalists at BNN published lengthy stories as often as multiple times a minute" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking-ai-generated-news.html #AIethics #AIjournalism #textpocalypse #journalism

The #textpocalypse is already killing people and they're not even dead. Obituary spam takes advantage of what Google calls "data voids" to send AI-generated obits by AI-generated journos to the top of search rankings. And the subjects of these eulogies aren't always dead.

https://www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-obituary-spam-generative-clickbait

#Journalism #AIethics #ChatGPT #GenerativeAI #SEO

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ATTN: @mkirschenbaum
#Textpocalypse and model collapse.

Prepare for the #Textpocalypse : The Atlantic

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Lapsed literary theorists and the #textpocalypse: “I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us.”

"It is easy now to imagine a setup wherein machines could prompt other machines to put out text ad infinitum, flooding the internet with synthetic text devoid of human agency or intent: gray goo, but for the written word." In the Atlantic, @mkirschenbaum wonders whether we might be headed for a "textpocalypse."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ai-chatgpt-writing-language-models/673318/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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