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213 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 22 Jun \ on: Slop is everywhere and getting deeper - The Economist AI

My question is does any of the slop actually matter?

We already knew there was a long tail of junk music, junk blogs, junk writing, junk everything, even before the age of AI.

Getting noticed was always a challenge. Is it substantially more of a challenge now? Does the amount of slop competition really matter for the genuinely high quality stuff?

In my mind, these are all still open questions.

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117 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 22 Jun

I think that slop is bad for LLM training, for humans trying to consume good content there are good places for it, as SN here filtered by money.

Slop makes good content shinny bright.

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82 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 22 Jun

Any place that actually attempts to review things or recommend them or sort them has to contend with this wave of new low-value content. I suspect the easiest/most cost-effective way to make it so it doesn't overwhelm users is something that looks a lot like Toy Story 5 or Shrek 16 -- platforms just go with what they know works.

Sure, Toy Story has the best of the best working for them, but the new ideas, the next Toy Story, I don't think it's going to be so easy for that person to break in.

And as for social media, where we don't necessarily only want to see the posts of highly brilliant and successful people (dumb memes from your uncle Bill are occasionally fun), what do we do about that? It's just a firehose of slop.

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