There is no grandiose "AI era". Or it started like in 1950s already.

What it is going to be is a 'Slop Decade' - a much better label if you insist on having one.

I remember taking a machine learning course in which the instructor explicitly warned us to make wise fiscal decisions, based on the assumption that ML funding follows a hype-driven boom/bust cycle.

"Save during the summers and you'll make it through the winters".

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nusl 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The slop decade will be a slop "rest of humanity." There's no going back from this.

	▲	heavyset_go 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think some spaces will try to retain their value by actively combating LLMs, in the same way they combat hackers and trolls, and if they don't, they'll naturally die. Several subreddits became AI slop submission repositories and their human engagement dwindled. Some subreddits that were inundated with AI slop implemented policies that ban it, and it seems to work well. Strict no slop policies work, and surprisingly, so do rules that require AI submissions to be tagged as AI. Forcing slop slingers to tag their slop does a good job at discouraging said slop, it turns out that admitting your slop is slop is embarrassing or something.
	▲	missingdays 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		No technology ever became obsolete?
	▲	netsharc 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Oh well, when the most powerful people on the planet manage to enshittify it enough, we'll be freed from AI... Or maybe there'll be the elite enjoying the world, while the rest of us have to work manual labor. But at least it'll be AI systems ensuring our compliance!