Post #2862242

2025-10-10 16:13 UTC

@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social AIs write bad books (and texts, etc.) -- incoherent mash-ups of existing human works, and eventually worse mash-ups of human and AI works. But how does the existence of a bad book destroy knowledge? The good books still exist. The problem in my view is less bad AI books, and more bad indexes and catalogs, (i.e. search pages made by foolish search engine corporations), and the ignorant public's very much misplaced trust in those bad indexes.

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@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social 2025-10-12 19:10

@oof@mastodon.sdf.org @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social if the good information is drowning in a sea of slop, how is one supposed to gain knowledge?

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@DerPumu@mstdn.games 2025-10-13 05:56

@oof@mastodon.sdf.org @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social AI books and articles become less and less incoherent. That's what they are made for, after all, to sound reasonably similar to human-written text. They don't become more truthful, though, because that's what they're not made for. Bottom line, it becomes harder and harder to distinguish AI slop with a good amount of bullshit from human-written, good research. And even the latter over time is infested with more and more bullshit because when your sources are citing sources that are citing sources that contain made-up AI BS, at some point you won't know what's true and what is not.

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@Nyborg@sakurajima.social 2025-10-17 11:41

@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social @oof@mastodon.sdf.org Can you help point us to any good indexes?

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