In a slow way the internet nay sayers are right. AI slop is only part of it. Plenty of humans are also making easily consumed content gruel chasing the algorithm.
I really don’t like people’s nostalgia for the old web. Like try creating your own enclaves sure but realise it was always a voluntary thankless effort. What little we still got is amazing considering how many people sink hundreds of thousands of hours into YouTube slop or league of legends or whatever. Or how hard it is to self host with everybody trying to harass or scam webmasters.
It honestly makes me sad to think of the kind of grand achievement of human ingenuity the internet could have been… instead of the writhing, cancerous mass of ads and slop and scams, pure manipulation and greed, all the pathologies of capitalism amplified and beamed into our brains that it is. Like, it really could have been a tool for human flourishing, but instead it’s just another tool for extraction and oppression of most of humanity.
Yeah, I feel like we can’t even imagine how great it could still become in a future global communist society. We might not live to see it, but hopefully a future generation.
Plenty of humans are also making easily consumed content gruel chasing the algorithm.
Very true, the millions of shallow algorithmic listicle blogs regurgitating top google results, marketing nonsense, and other listicles, predated the availability of genAI. GenAI has just massively accelerated the internet down this path.
people sink thousands hours into youtube instead of learning ball/guitar, cause that’s where perceived image of success ™ inhabits currently. it’s curious how it’s self-reinforcing prophecy, but oh well.
i’m sure parents had same idea about kids noodling on guitar during nirvana craze (for earlier live reaction video see back to the future).
nah but i think it’s two different lanes (ball-guitar-professional gamer) and (tv presenter-model-youtuber), one is skill related the other famousness related, although they are obviously intertvined in all sorts of ways. while one can be annoyed at the first, the second is always whatever.
In a slow way the internet nay sayers are right. AI slop is only part of it. Plenty of humans are also making easily consumed content gruel chasing the algorithm.
I really don’t like people’s nostalgia for the old web. Like try creating your own enclaves sure but realise it was always a voluntary thankless effort. What little we still got is amazing considering how many people sink hundreds of thousands of hours into YouTube slop or league of legends or whatever. Or how hard it is to self host with everybody trying to harass or scam webmasters.
Still is in the good parts.
The Internet is so far away from what it could be under communism.
It honestly makes me sad to think of the kind of grand achievement of human ingenuity the internet could have been… instead of the writhing, cancerous mass of ads and slop and scams, pure manipulation and greed, all the pathologies of capitalism amplified and beamed into our brains that it is. Like, it really could have been a tool for human flourishing, but instead it’s just another tool for extraction and oppression of most of humanity.
Yeah, I feel like we can’t even imagine how great it could still become in a future global communist society. We might not live to see it, but hopefully a future generation.
Very true, the millions of shallow algorithmic listicle blogs regurgitating top google results, marketing nonsense, and other listicles, predated the availability of genAI. GenAI has just massively accelerated the internet down this path.
GenAI is a listical eight ball
@Magic8Ball@hexbear.net is this true
@Edie@hexbear.net this thing is hella rad!
I’m sorry where did this little bot come from?
My sources say no
people sink thousands hours into youtube instead of learning ball/guitar, cause that’s where perceived image of success ™ inhabits currently. it’s curious how it’s self-reinforcing prophecy, but oh well.
That’s so depressing lol
Just imagining a kid out there with an incredible ear, scrolling through hours of algo optimization content because they want to be just like mr beast
i’m sure parents had same idea about kids noodling on guitar during nirvana craze (for earlier live reaction video see back to the future).
nah but i think it’s two different lanes (ball-guitar-professional gamer) and (tv presenter-model-youtuber), one is skill related the other famousness related, although they are obviously intertvined in all sorts of ways. while one can be annoyed at the first, the second is always whatever.
Average youtube thumbnail includes something like
Edit: emnerson made a video on this just 2 weeks ago