AI Is Ruining the Internet

The "public" social media, aka main feeds, have turned into pure shit, as he points out in the video.

Prior to 2022 it was mostly just bots copy/pasting and commenting the same images over and over again. Did it suck? Sure, but these days it is exactly as the guy pointed out - unlimited amounts of low-effort / low-quality generated images, and tries to copy anything that's trending.

I rarely, very rarely actually browse the social media feeds - I exclusively use social media for closed groups and pages, but the few times I find myself in the feed, it is just a continuous stream of AI Jesus/soldiers/struggle/celebrity generated garbage.

Why do I even get this garbage? It has literally zero correlation with my search queries, or activity. The recommendation algorithm must be broken - or the big companies are fully embracing this garbage.

I let it play while I was eating lunch. It's a bit low-brow, but he actually does a good job going over the issues and arriving at a conclusion.

The video's funny but I don't really agree with the conclusion. There's a near infinite amount of stuff on the internet and I don't think it matters is there's loads of junk on it if you can find good bits. And the quality of the good bits seems pretty good on the whole - much better than when the internet started.

Meh the internet was already ruined by over-commercialisation (eg Google, Facebook, tiktok, Microsoft etc). Or for a much better term, enshittification. There isn't much room left to make it worse.

AI is just pointing out the shitpile of junk it had already become and making it more noticeable because it's all glossy and new, rather than just slowly deteriorating over time like the regular Google and YouTube.

However, the bottom line of this YouTube video is not really about the internet at all. It's about artists which are being driven out of the market by skilless people using AI trained on those artists' work. This is a good point. And also, a worry. What's going to happen to the next generations of AI? Once there's no actual artists left AI will be trained on other crappy AI output and worsen as a result. This is also the case for LLMs as the sources of LLM training are being flooded with LLM output.

Interesting section about Spotify, would love to see a journalist investigate it.

That is the funniest video I've seen in a long time.

Thank you.

I would be remiss if I failed to point out that the peak of gathering information off the Internet used to be Googling for your phrase plus "Reddit." Now when AIs return the exact same results, it is a horrible thing. The point is: AIs make mistakes but so does every other way we have of seeking truth, unless you have divine inspiration. Divine inspiration is infallable.