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AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge(irisvanrooijcogsci.com)
56 points by sebg 2 days ago | 10 comments
saltcured 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Who knew the gray goo was actually going to be a flood of meaningless text?

slowmovintarget 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Gregory Benford

ofjcihen 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly that would make a good sci fi short story. What appears to be a well of knowledge created by an advanced but missing species that turns out to be nothing but well ordered gibberish.

Maybe it spreads to other civilizations that find it and accidentally incorporate it into their technology.

Or maybe they go to war over it and destroy themselves leaving whoever is left to find out that’s its cyber trash.

davesmylie 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not AI related, but the (hard sci-fi) book Blind Sight by Peter Watts explores this from a different angle. He posits that consciousness is expensive and some species may evolve to just "fake it".

Also, space vampires.

cyanydeez a day ago | parent [-]

Isnt that just the P zombie concept

saltcured 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tentative title: The Machine Slops

cyanydeez a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The AI unplugged humanity cause it read a scifi and now its broadcasting bullshit endlessly cause it was built with millenia spanning fail safes.

throwawayoldie 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

...shit, maybe this is the Great Filter. In which case, fellow humans, it's been nice knowing some of you, and best of luck to the rats or raccoons or cockroaches or whoever ends up taking our ecological niche.

vhantz 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So what's the real definition??

cyanydeez 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Imaging generating haystacks at an accelerated rate and calling it progress.