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Basically every person who thought about this for even 10 seconds warned google this was going to happen. Google's entire incentive structure is monetization-via-ranking-via-SEO-&-clicks. People are clicking "AI" porn, & people Making "AI" porn are manipulatively lying in their SEO to drive traffic
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Please, for the love of all that is holy and prosocial and compassionate and good, learn to center those people who have both lived experiential knowledge and hard-won expertise in how technology affects marginalized people, and then heed their damn warnings and recommendations.
Basically every person who thought about this for even 10 seconds warned google this was going to happen. Google's entire incentive structure is monetization-via-ranking-via-SEO-&-clicks. People are clicking "AI" porn, & people Making "AI" porn are manipulatively lying in their SEO to drive traffic
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Noble's Algos of Oppression was 2018 & joined a living conversation, but we're still nowhere because a bunch of mostly white dudes w/ cartoon dollar signs where their critical thinking skills should be keep slathering themselves in LLM/GPT/"AI" & running down the street screaming "We Are The Future"
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this is completely tangential but I googled the book and got this which I think if anything proves your point:
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In the weeks leading up to our book launch for "The Secret Life of Data" in April, we found at least three self-published (probably AI-generated) books with the same title on Amazon. I think that's standard practice these days.
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Not looking forward to the very near future when people have to give ISBNs with their book recommendations, as title and even author name won't work anymore.
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Not just book recommendations; everything we share will have to come with validating metadata. Whoever makes this frictionless is going to make bank.
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It would be ironic if all the Gen AI pollution were going to finally create a real use-case for blockchain.
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We could melt the glaciers twice as fast!
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Ever hear of "worldcoin"? Sam altman's other project that hands out cryptocurrency if you give them an iris scan. For content though, I don't think using an append-only ledger helps too much.
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It's a huge issue, and I'm unsure how Amazon is not responsible for ensuring the products they sell are legitimate. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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