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+Microsoft just announced +their ChatGPT-powered Bing experience. While Google is worried and scrambling to +catch up on the new space race, we as humans have even more important things to +worry about than our bottom line. +

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+From a purely technological perspective, these AI developments look incredible. +We're getting to the point where computer assistants we know from sci-fi films +are becoming an every day reality. +

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+But what are the wider implications of this? +

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+There's tons of potential societal outcomes this could lead to, starting with +kids a few years from now wondering why Tony Stark is the only character with an +all-knowing AI assistant in Iron Man, all the way to a full singularity event. +For this article, I'll focus on just one aspect: Internet content. +

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AI content on the web

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+For some time already, there's been a ton of AI-composed or -aided "content" on +the web. You may have heard others (e.g. + + Luke Smith, + Jacob Smith; no relation between the two as far as I'm aware) complaining +about the generic SEO garbage sites that just produce tons of generic, +search-engine friendly articles on commonly searched topics, just to farm clicks +and ad views. +

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+More recently, as various advanced language models started being published, +people started speculating that eventually AI will start replacing even the +higher-class content. YouTuber penguinz0 + claims that, in his +opinion, a bit of playing around with ChatGPT produced a better game review than +a popular game journalism website. BuzzFeed + + openly stated + that they will start publishing AI generated articles. +

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One author

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+While people have been suspecting that eventually more and more content will +be generated, Microsoft is now straight up recommending you do it now (see +minute 37:30 of the press conference, linked above). +

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+Composing individual social media posts might not seem like that big of a +deal. But it is if you take into account how media builds upon itself. Much +content is created by citing, commenting on, being inspired by other content. +And AI is itself specifically suited to quickly generating this sort of +derivative material. As the density of AI generated content increases, its +rate of increase will start to grow non-linearly. +

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+Just imagine. A Wikipedia article cites that so-and-so said something on +Twitter. That The Guardian reported that this or that happened. A leaked email +from so-and-so revealed that... But all those sources were written by AI. And +maybe the article itself was composed with the help of Bing's compose +functionality? +

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+Then you search for something relevant and the Bing bot reads the article and +provides you an answer based on it. Maybe you're smart enough to double check +there are "real" sources to corroborate the bot's answers and it's not something +it made up, so you find the Wikipedia article yourself, full of external +citations, and are satisfied. +

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+But fool you are, the internet has one author. +

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