Its incredibly depressing that LLMs have made so many facets of life strictly worse. Everything is absolutely inundated with slop

I'm mildly hopeful that when text watermarking comes in, we'll be able to automatically filter out all the LLM crap that gets generated currently. It feels like we're in the very early days of email becoming a tool used for mass spam, while we figure out exactly how to deal with that

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cphoover 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

watermarking will only work if it's embedded in the model (i.e. frontier/paid offerings). The rate at which open-source/open-weight models are advancing I think watermarks are probably only a temporary solution right? Fragmentation of the models available, or having more models that don't contain watermarks available will probably make this technique useless in the future I would think?

	▲	creata 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Watermarks have been working reasonably for images even though open models are absolutely competitive with commercial ones, and I guess the reason turned out to be that if someone's going to put in no effort, they're really going to put in no effort.

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gedy 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Relying on in person relationships and communication are vastly better if digital channels get saturated with noise.

	▲	cobertos 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		But cultivating those takes so much time and is geographically limited. The quality is also less, as the pool of people is so much smaller. But I admit, in-person is more rewarding (for me personally, in the longer term). I'm debating living in a van to have continued geographic flexibility in choosing social interactions of quality. But there has to be a better way, right? As for now, I cling dearly to the friends I have. But it's... worrying