The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies produce have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like the answers might be good and the answers are very easy to produce. There are also many people trying out ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies to create answers, without the expertise or willingness to verify that the answer is correct prior to posting. Because such answers are so easy to produce, a large number of people are posting a lot of answers. The volume of these answers (thousands) and the fact that the answers often require a detailed read by someone with significant subject matter expertise in order to determine that the answer is actually bad has effectively swamped our volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure.
...they weren't allowed to delete posts solely for being AI-generated (using the language of social justice to call mods racist, naturally)
semi-related but okay so you have this small detail, and add the whole recent thing with Nanowrimo trying to claim that you're ableist and classist if you don't care for the boring output of LLMs. i'm sure there are other examples i can't remember rn but it's absolutely fascinating seeing how the people trying to force this AI shit onto us try out different social-justice-language-exploiting PR tactics, and how they quickly drop these mini-campaigns when they realize it's not working. like, you don't hear them talk about "democratizing" art much anymore, do you? now they're simply trying to guilt people into shutting up about it. interesting move, let's see how it works out for these businessboys
It really highlights how, pardon my language, artificial the push for AI is. There isn't demand. There are just advertisers and CEOs trying to push this on everyone, and they'll make up any old bullshit to try and move an inch.
they'll post a video from their multimodal LLM and talk about how revolutionary it is and how it can make movies now and then you watch it and it's a 90 second long collection of 5 second shots (model can't maintain context any longer than that) of things that look somewhat plausible and Pixar-ish as a still moving and shifting and twisting and changing in ways they should not, cannot, and you realize that the people pushing these things are suffering from the same disease their models are: they can't create any original ideas either and so all they can do is look at what people have created with their minds and think "I can do that just as good because I am a smart boy who's good with computers and I'm going to make everyone like me" and then they start copying their work, but they don't know what they're even trying to copy, do they? Because they look at all creative work at nothing more than a surface level. If they went to an art museum they would think it was a bunch of pretty pictures, linger in the section with the Renaissance paintings, marveling at the chiaroscuro, and if they even got to the contemporary art section they'd stare at a Rothko for a while, scoff and move on, or just walk past it because it's not representational and so to them contains nothing to Look At and feel something. To them, a painting functions at the same level as someone who choose a Mickey Mouse watch face for their Apple Watch and then looks at it and smiles because they saw Mickey Mouse. They would not do any of this AI shit if they understood why people more creative than them create art. All they can do is copy without understanding, in their work and in their internal models of why people should want to consume their work and why it's wrong to oppose what they're doing, and so it comes off as bizarre, inhuman, inauthentic. They're remixing without comprehension.
