Earlier today, I posted an ai generated image. I thought it’s a very good image. I wanted to share it because it was something special I hadn’t seen before. The post was removed after a while. The removal made me think.

What happened?

An “ai” generated a series of images of which a human selected one and shared it in a forum. It is coincidence that it was the first image that yielded the best result.

The ai could’ve posted the image itself. It wouldn’t have needed a human. And even if it needs a human today to select the image, it might not need a human tomorrow to judge if a picture is of higher quality.

If we allow ai generated content in a forum where humans interact with each other, we risk our conversations and interactions. If we let a computer post what we read and see we lose our community life. We end up interacting only with machines and not humans.

I remembered a news story that facebook started artificial profiles on facebook/instagram. It would post only artificially generated content. 10 years ago it was important to facebook that we proof that we are human and no bot or alt account. Today facebook is only profit driven. It does not care if humans or robots interact with each other. It’s cool that there are machines now.

I do not want to see posts of a computer, I do not want other people to see this content and interact with it. It is an incredible technology. It’s astonishing what we achieved so far and what we will achieve in the future.

I do not want to live in a world where we interact with machines and can not distinguish between human reality and fiction. I am deeply sorry. I have thought about it and I am greatful that I have a better understanding of it.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The first user I blocked was the AutoTL;DR bot. GTFO with machine summaries.

    How to Use ChatGPT to Summarize an Article: ChatGPT tends to oversimplify things or even hallucinate sometimes, so fact-checking is essential.

    Which means I’m discussing articles with people who read dumbed-down hallucinations of articles.

    • juli@programming.devOP
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      10 months ago

      I like them for a quick overview, like the introductory paragraph of a wikipedia article. I hadn’t questioned that bot so far

  • fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    At the very least, ai generated content needs to be clearly indicated. I have been surrounding things with the robot emoji, eg: “🤖ai content🤖”, whenever sharing something machine generated, and most people seem to be understanding what it means. Ai is here to stay, and many will use it for personal gain. We need at least some basic standards around the content so we can keep track of it.