AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. (www.wired.com)
from Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 11:55
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harsh3466@lemmy.ml on 29 Oct 12:26 next collapse

:shocked pikachu:

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 29 Oct 12:39 collapse

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 12:44 next collapse

CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it. they keep generating sign-ups and selling ads… till next quarter, at least.

MyOpinion@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 13:06 next collapse

We are in the slop era.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 13:08 next collapse

Just watched rant about a large historic museum in Germany using plenty of awful AI imagery, supposedly about the middle ages, showing what can only be identified as Mandalorians from Star Wars. It’s unnerving how far AI slob cancer reaches and we’re only at the early stages and how little responsibility anyone is willing to take when using AI.

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Oct 15:49 collapse

Do you have a source of that Germany museum?, I do not find it online.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 10:45 collapse

Sure, so the Rant I was talking about is this by german Youtber Geschichtsfenster

He linked sources. For example the Mandalorian armor slob can be found on the header image of this page: https://www.bauernkrieg-bw.de/uffrur-ausstellung

Another campaign can be found on an Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/magda_lautseit1525/

They’re both about the peasant wars, so not actually medieval now that I think about it. Terrible nonetheless.

Womble@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 13:33 next collapse

Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?

drmoose@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 15:05 collapse

As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.

Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.

It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:

  • practicing writing
  • building out their brand which is basically newbies
  • trying to make pennies through low effor churn

I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.

Rob200@lemmings.world on 29 Oct 14:27 next collapse

How does ai report news reliably? I wouldn’t trust ai to report the news. It might get some stories right but knowing it’s not human it will miss something.

When anyone hears that any news source uses ai to write and rpeort news they need to write down a list of sites known to be using ai, and even radio station are now using ai for commentary apparently.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 14:39 next collapse

“It’s crucial…”

urda@lebowski.social on 29 Oct 16:15 next collapse

Medium was always shit.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 29 Oct 18:05 collapse

Follow people for their reputations and credibility and it doesn’t matter

ugjka@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 19:01 collapse

We need some kind of search engine that’s based on trust