As NixCraft wrote when sharing this: the irony is that it’s from Perplexity.
The rest of you can do this, we won’t.
We might be one of those little corners of the web still making human-written content.
Life skill in 2025: to spot what is real and what is slop. A bit like spotting real and spun websites 10 years ago (and content mills 15 years ago).
This could have been solved if Google and others excluded the slop, something which they had plenty of opportunity to do. Make it so it isn’t worthwhile. But when they actually fund it through advertising, then it was foreseeable that this is where we would wind up.
We saw what happened when at least one article a day was written about me by “AI” for nine months of 2024, and sure enough, some second- and maybe even third-generation rubbish was generated.
Again, the warnings were there, but we’re heading head-first into this, with the fake stuff overwhelming the real.
Now you can see, with even more clarity, why it was so important to me to weed out the slop during 2024.
This is going to affect all of us at some point on our present path.
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