> The Dead Internet and the triumph of quantity over quality loom

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The Internet has drowned to death in garbage back when they coined the term "content marketing". That was long before transformer models were a thing.

People have this weird impression that LLMs created a deluge of slop and reduced overall quality of most text on-line. I disagree - the quality arguably improved, since SOTA LLMs write better than most people. The only thing that dropped is content marketing salaries. You were already reading slop, LLMs just let the publisher skip the human content spouter middleman.

I’m old enough to remember people complaining about the exact same thing except they called it eternal September.