Fershad Irani

Digital Sustainability Consultant
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It’s rude to show AI output to people

Source: distantprovince.by

For the longest time, writing was more expensive than reading. If you encountered a body of written text, you could be sure that at the very least, a human spent some time writing it down. The text used to have an innate proof-of-thought, a basic token of humanity.

Now, AI has made text very, very, very cheap. Not only text, in fact. Code, images, video. All kinds of media. We can't rely on proof-of-thought anymore. Any text can be AI slop. If you read it, you're injured in this war. You engaged and replied – you're as good as dead. The dead internet is not just dead it's poisoned. So what do we do?

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