alt Hacker News>other people are reasonable like you
No AI needed. Spam on the internet is a great example of the amount of unreasonable people on the internet. And for this I'll define unreasonable as "committing an action they would not want committed back at them".
AI here is the final nail in the coffin that many sysadmins have been dealing with for decades. And that is that unreasonable actors are a type of asymmetric warfare on the internet, specifically the global internet, because with some of these actors you have zero recourse. AI moved this from moderately drowning in crap to being crushed under an ocean of it.
Going to be interesting to see how human systems deal with this.
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> AI here is the final nail in the coffin
so far*
> Going to be interesting to see how human systems deal with this.
At least a bunch of lawyers already got hit when their court filings cited hallucinated cases. If this trend continues, I'll not be surprised when some end up disbarred.
> Spam on the internet is a great example of the amount of unreasonable people on the internet.
AI also generates spam though, so this is a much bigger problem than merely "unreasonable" people alone.
Every order of magnitude of difference constitutes a categorical difference.
The ability to create spam instantly, fitted perfectly to any situation, and doing that 24/7, everywhere, is very different from before. Before, spam was annoying but generally different enough to tell apart. It was also (in general) never too much as to make an entire platform useless.
With AI, the entire internet IS spam. No matter what you google or look at, there's a very high chance it's AI spam. The internet is super duper extra dead.