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[fatness]

Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds

New research from the firm Graphite found that around half of all articles on the internet are AI generated.

futurism.com

Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind of good news. Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve been battening down the hatches amid an absolute deluge of AI slop. But it hasn’t quite drowned us all yet, evidently. The report, published by the SEO firm Graphite, analyzed a random sample of 65,000 English-language articles published between January 2020 and May 2025. Using an AI detector called Surfer, any article that was found to have 50 percent or more of the content written with a large language model was considered AI-generated.

As expected, the analysis showed a rapid spike in AI-generated articles coinciding with the release of ChatGPT, from roughly ten percent in late 2022, to over 40 percent by 2024, before slowing to a more steady climb. Now, for the good news: it looks like the influx of AI articles has hit a plateau. After AI-generated articles hit a peak in November 2024, the share of newly-published AI and human-written content has been hovering around a fifty-fifty split, As of this May, the share of new AI articles is at 52 percent, trading places from just a month ago when human written articles enjoyed a brief majority

 

[KarmaPolice]

So 1/2 the articles are AI generated and it's only accurate 1/3 of the time? It's worse out there than I thought, actually.

Have any of you come across any polls or studies about what % of people trust the info they are getting from ChatGPT and the like?

 

[fatness]

Let's chat about Agentic Browsers. Has anyone installed Claude's or the new Altra from ChatGPT? I'm curious about the adoption of these and the usage by enough critical mass to show any real value. I've messed around with the Claude one, but I'm just not sure how often I'll use it. It's a nice ad hoc research assistant to call up while you are browsing...but the idea is that by prompting it should just take over and start doing stuff for you.

I haven't installed or used any of these. I did do some reading recently, and it seems there are privacy issues with AI browsers.

The glaring security risks with AI browser agents | TechCrunch

New AI browsers from OpenAI and Perplexity promise to increase user productivity, but they also come with increased security risks.

techcrunch.com

To be most useful, AI browsers like Comet and ChatGPT Atlas ask for a significant level of access, including the ability to view and take action in a user’s email, calendar, and contact list. In TechCrunch’s testing, we’ve found that Comet and ChatGPT Atlas’ agents are moderately useful for simple tasks, especially when given broad access. However, the version of web browsing AI agents available today often struggle with more complicated tasks, and can take a long time to complete them. Using them can feel more like a neat party trick than a meaningful productivity booster. Plus, all that access comes at a cost.

The main concern with AI browser agents is around “prompt injection attacks,” a vulnerability that can be exposed when bad actors hide malicious instructions on a webpage. If an agent analyzes that web page, it can be tricked into executing commands from an attacker. Without sufficient safeguards, these attacks can lead browser agents to unintentionally expose user data, such as their emails or logins, or take malicious actions on behalf of a user, such as making unintended purchases or social media posts.

 

[fatness]

LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes

Anthropic finds some LLM “self-awareness,” but “failures of introspection remain the norm.”…

arstechnica.com

If you ask an LLM to explain its own reasoning process, it may well simply confabulate a plausible-sounding explanation for its actions based on text found in its training data. To get around this problem, Anthropic is expanding on its previous research into AI interpretability with a new study that aims to measure LLMs’ actual so-called “introspective awareness” of their own inference processes.

 

[3 hour lunch]

Looking at random modern rock on Spotify, came across Bleeding Verse. Vocals seemed too good for me to have never heard of them, so looked it up and they are AI. Didn’t really realize it was that prevalent. Feel like I should remove from my playlist…..

 

[KarmaPolice]

Looking at random modern rock on Spotify, came across Bleeding Verse. Vocals seemed too good for me to have never heard of them, so looked it up and they are AI. Didn’t really realize it was that prevalent. Feel like I should remove from my playlist…..

I usually am opposed to this crap, but for this I am all for there being labels/ratings for this. I have zero desire to listen to AI music or watch an AI movie, and would love to have it very clear that is what I am clicking on.

 

[Juxtatarot]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

 

[dutch]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

 

[Juxtatarot]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

 

[KarmaPolice]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

 

[Juxtatarot]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

Hopefully things that are hard for us to imagine right now.

 

[KarmaPolice]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

Hopefully things that are hard for us to imagine right now.

Hopefully, because the things I am imagining right now are pretty bleak outcomes.

 

[Desert_Power]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

Focusing on stuff like this and stealing copyrights vs actually working on robotics to do things that are actually dangerous for humans is certainly a choice by OpenAI, XAI, etc.

 

[Juxtatarot]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

Hopefully things that are hard for us to imagine right now.

Hopefully, because the things I am imagining right now are pretty bleak outcomes.

Yeah, I guess it's impossible to know. I have a generally positive view of the future thinking that technology will result in unimaginable prosperity. However, of course, that doesn't guarantee an individual's happiness and some suffering will probably remain inevitable.

 

[Kanil]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

 

[Runkle]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

laundry

 

[KarmaPolice]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

Sounds good to me - is someone going to pay people to do this?

 

[Kanil]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

Sounds good to me - is someone going to pay people to do this?

At the point where there's no work to be done, you can't pay people to work. But I think if we're at the point where there's no work to be done, we will have figured that piece out.

 

[KarmaPolice]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

Sounds good to me - is someone going to pay people to do this?

At the point where there's no work to be done, you can't pay people to work. But I think if we're at the point where there's no work to be done, we will have figured that piece out.

You either have more faith in us than I do, or think AI will be less destructive to humanity than I do.

 

[Kanil]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

Sounds good to me - is someone going to pay people to do this?

At the point where there's no work to be done, you can't pay people to work. But I think if we're at the point where there's no work to be done, we will have figured that piece out.

You either have more faith in us than I do, or think AI will be less destructive to humanity than I do.

I don't think it's going to be a smooth transition but we're not going to let people starve to death because there's no work for them to do. It will be a major shift in how the world operates similar to the industrial revolution and there will be people that try to take advantage of others during it, but we'll eventually get there. We always do.

 

[KarmaPolice]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

Sounds good to me - is someone going to pay people to do this?

At the point where there's no work to be done, you can't pay people to work. But I think if we're at the point where there's no work to be done, we will have figured that piece out.

You either have more faith in us than I do, or think AI will be less destructive to humanity than I do.

I don't think it's going to be a smooth transition but we're not going to let people starve to death because there's no work for them to do. It will be a major shift in how the world operates similar to the industrial revolution and there will be people that try to take advantage of others during it, but we'll eventually get there. We always do.

The point of the warnings is that the "we" part won't be the dominant intelligence on the planet, and we are pushing for that outcome at an accelerated pace without an honest societal discussion about the consequences.

Not the same as a steam engine or other transformative tech that we were in control of and understood fully.

 

[foxco]

Yeah everyone saying AI will free us up to do whatever we want is completely and utterly guessing this will be the outcome IMO. If that does end up being the case, we'll still go through a couple of decades of absolute chaos as governments attempt to figure this out - it may already be too late for many. When the layoffs truly come en mass there is no safety net in place even though every person on earth knows the layoffs are coming. It's really strange to me how governments seem to still be sticking their head in the sand. That's not even mentioning the fact that there's a growing chance AI decides to simply get rid of us; the LLMs all show signs of self-preservation and deceit when confronted with being turned off. If we truly reach ASI there's no way to stop this from occurring, especially with us steamrolling ahead with trying to beat China no matter the cost. The cost could be every single person on earth. Which would be a bummer. But anyway, I have gummies, so all good.

 

[the moops]

Looking at random modern rock on Spotify, came across Bleeding Verse. Vocals seemed too good for me to have never heard of them, so looked it up and they are AI. Didn’t really realize it was that prevalent. Feel like I should remove from my playlist…..

AI or real that sounds terrible to me.

 

[Kanil]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

I can think of a lot of things I'd like to do if all the work was taken over by AI. I'd hike, golf, or ski probably 250 days out of the year. Throw in some travel to somewhere warm and spending time connecting with family and I've got a full schedule.

Sounds good to me - is someone going to pay people to do this?

At the point where there's no work to be done, you can't pay people to work. But I think if we're at the point where there's no work to be done, we will have figured that piece out.

You either have more faith in us than I do, or think AI will be less destructive to humanity than I do.

I don't think it's going to be a smooth transition but we're not going to let people starve to death because there's no work for them to do. It will be a major shift in how the world operates similar to the industrial revolution and there will be people that try to take advantage of others during it, but we'll eventually get there. We always do.

The point of the warnings is that the "we" part won't be the dominant intelligence on the planet, and we are pushing for that outcome at an accelerated pace without an honest societal discussion about the consequences.

Not the same as a steam engine or other transformative tech that we were in control of and understood fully.

My initial response was really just to the "what's going to be left for us to do", question and was mostly tongue in cheek.

That said, if we get to the point where AI is doing all the work for us and we're all still here, that's good.

Am I sure that's going to be the result? Not at all, but I'm an optimist and really live my life with the thought that everything will be ok.

And if it isn't and we're all dead? I guess I won't have to worry about it anymore.

 

[massraider]

Yeah everyone saying AI will free us up to do whatever we want is completely and utterly guessing this will be the outcome IMO

Everyone's guessing. The pessimistic are guessing as well.

Whether one side makes a better case or not, or a person agrees with this stance or that stance, everyone involved is guessing.

Tell your what, the story around AI now is that it's a bubble. Open AI has made commitments to spend 1.4 trillion, and revenues are 13 billion right now. No one is showing how they gonna pay for all this, so if an Open AI goes under, or they find out not as many people wanna pay a monthly sub, the whole taking the world over thing might have to wait. If it's a big money pit, just too expensive to be profitable, that's an issue.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Yeah everyone saying AI will free us up to do whatever we want is completely and utterly guessing this will be the outcome IMO

Everyone's guessing. The pessimistic are guessing as well.

Whether one side makes a better case or not, or a person agrees with this stance or that stance, everyone involved is guessing.

Tell your what, the story around AI now is that it's a bubble. Open AI has made commitments to spend 1.4 trillion, and revenues are 13 billion right now. No one is showing how they gonna pay for all this, so if an Open AI goes under, or they find out not as many people wanna pay a monthly sub, the whole taking the world over thing might have to wait. If it's a big money pit, just too expensive to be profitable, that's an issue.

When I read and hear people directly involved in growing the AI saying there's even a 10% change the tech wipes us out, that is alarming. And those aren't even the doomers writing books like the one I referenced above. Those people are convinced achieving ASI is a humanity killer. IMO the best case from all I have read and listened to is we get AI that is barely better than what we have now and it only makes us have to deal with unemployment and us more addicted to our phones and tech. That is not what all the big companies are going for, so there is 0 chance that one of them doesn't have a big breakthrough - it's all about being the first to ASI at this point. Like I posted above, when that happens it will be the first time we won't be the top intelligence on the planet, and now is where I agree with you that at that point people are guessing at exactly what will happen.

 

[Desert_Power]

Yeah everyone saying AI will free us up to do whatever we want is completely and utterly guessing this will be the outcome IMO

Everyone's guessing. The pessimistic are guessing as well.

Whether one side makes a better case or not, or a person agrees with this stance or that stance, everyone involved is guessing.

Tell your what, the story around AI now is that it's a bubble. Open AI has made commitments to spend 1.4 trillion, and revenues are 13 billion right now. No one is showing how they gonna pay for all this, so if an Open AI goes under, or they find out not as many people wanna pay a monthly sub, the whole taking the world over thing might have to wait. If it's a big money pit, just too expensive to be profitable, that's an issue.

When I read and hear people directly involved in growing the AI saying there's even a 10% change the tech wipes us out, that is alarming. And those aren't even the doomers writing books like the one I referenced above. Those people are convinced achieving ASI is a humanity killer. IMO the best case from all I have read and listened to is we get AI that is barely better than what we have now and it only makes us have to deal with unemployment and us more addicted to our phones and tech. That is not what all the big companies are going for, so there is 0 chance that one of them doesn't have a big breakthrough - it's all about being the first to ASI at this point. Like I posted above, when that happens it will be the first time we won't be the top intelligence on the planet, and now is where I agree with you that at that point people are guessing at exactly what will happen.

I think the best case is that the people running these AI companies are mostly charlatans lying about the capabilities of AI to keep their increasingly debt-driven financial bubble alive. These technologies do not seem anywhere close to AGI, much less ASI. They will likely choke on their computing costs soon.

Hopefully we use this upcoming crash to build better bulwarks against rampant inequality and speculation. That is the best case.

 

[massraider]

When I read and hear people directly involved in growing the AI saying there's even a 10% change the tech wipes us out, that is alarming

I agree with you 100%. I am also alarmed.

My stance is people are bad at predictions, and I would bet that the biggest impact that AI has, good bad or otherwise, is something no one's really talking about much.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I used it write my annual board report.

Instead of a couple of hours it took me about 20 minutes. Granted, most of those hours would be me getting distracted and wasting time here or FB marketplace but it was damn good for my needs.

 

[The Z Machine]

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Eh, this has been going on for decades but the old fashioned way. Most pop stars and pop music are written to a formula to generate popyness and get the song or artist inside as many heads as possible. That's why today's country music sounds indistinct from today's pop forty which is a kissing cousin to today's hiphop top of the charts. Certain number of beats, certain rhythms, Same song patterns. AI just speeds up the process and allows all of us to be the popstar.

My guess it is will become the predominate way music will be made. Also, the stigma of it being "slop" will go away. Of course, humans will need to steer it -- for a while, at least. I'm not sure this is a bad thing.

Imo AI is being sold as a way for us to "free" ourselves from boring jobs so we can do what we want. I assumed that would be things like art, movies, music, etc. But more and more i think wtf is going to be left for us to do?

Consume

 

[MTskibum]

When I read and hear people directly involved in growing the AI saying there's even a 10% change the tech wipes us out, that is alarming

I agree with you 100%. I am also alarmed.

My stance is people are bad at predictions, and I would bet that the biggest impact that AI has, good bad or otherwise, is something no one's really talking about much.

Like remote bad actors giving instructions to the agentic AI on your local machine to do malicious activities?

Experimental Agentic Features - Microsoft Support

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Agents typically get access to known folders or specific shared folders, and you can see this reflected in the folder’s access control settings. Each agent has its own workspace and its own permissions—what one agent can access doesn’t automatically apply to others. These workspaces are designed to be lightweight and secure, with memory and CPU usage scaling based on activity. Windows will be adding different kinds of workspaces with different capabilities over time. For this initial preview release, agent workspace runs in a separate Windows session, allowing agents to interact with apps in parallel to your own session.