The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI.

No, but thanks for asking. The rabbit hole still goes far further.

Ghostarchive is apparently blocked from The Atlantic, and other archive options aren’t friendly to VPNs, so I’m afraid I can’t provide an archive link.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    66·
    24 hours ago

    Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

    A Slowpoke with the logos of The Atlantic, saying "hey guys, did you know? Reddit is now full of AI slop.

    This process has been happening since ChatGPT was released. And it’ll only get worse.

    And when are those corporations get that people hate this sort of system? Ask Clippy.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      20 hours ago

      It happened long before chatgpt. Subredditsimulator was touted as a “fun game” at first but it was really a testing ground for bot devs. That goes back to like 2016, 6 years before chatgpt.

      Openai was established 2015 though, some of their team was probably already shitting up the internet by then

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      9·
      23 hours ago

      One might argue that OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention. Clippy feels quaint. Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        3·
        22 hours ago

        OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.

        Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over “his” precious data (i.e. users’) + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.

        Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

        Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then “if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick”, then on how you don’t really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it’s the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren’t really yours.

        [Sorry for the rambling.]