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1. James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 07:59:08 JST James Dreben :mw:

   The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

   Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

   https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

   #GenArt #GenerativeArt #AIart #AI #DarkForest #CozyWeb #DarkWeb #HumanContent #ContentGeneration #News

   • James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 07:59:05 JST James Dreben :mw:

     in reply to

     I want to highlight the 'Dead-Internet Theory'. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/

     "Many people will say we already live in this reality. We've already become skilled at sifting through unhelpful piles of 'optimised content' designed to gather clicks and advertising impressions.

     4chan proposed dead internet theory years ago: that most of the internet is 'empty and devoid of people' and has been taken over by artificial intelligence."

     #DeadInternet #DarkForest

   • James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 07:59:07 JST James Dreben :mw:

     in reply to

     @Jdreben “The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing ‘content creators,’ and algorithmically manipulated junk.

     It's like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees.”

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.