Laugh all you want, but I think we're at an internet content singularity. Not because ML output rivals good human writing, but because "good" is irrelevant. The content we click on the most if the stuff that ML can spew out without breaking a sweat.

I semi-regularly joke about this, but I see a very real disparity on my blog. The somewhat silly articles I'm not proud of get 20k, 40k views. The ones I put real effort into stay under 1k.

We all crave clickbait that reinforces our views. And ML will oblige and drown us in it.

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@lcamtuf You assume that the non-silly articles you put effort into are objectively better. But things just have different audiences, and some of those audiences are smaller than others. "The neo-Marxist agenda wants to destroy capitalism that has built all you see around you" and "we need to move towards a more equitable economic system that will let us avoid the sad outcomes of what capitalism has brought upon us" are essentially the same information, but very different audiences.

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