alt Hacker News" impact on the quality of research moving forward. " It'll affect everything that depends on manipulating symbols! The enormous body of knowledge humanity has accumulated over the past 6.000 years or so is about to be flooded with slop!And That's the real threat genai poses to humans that i don't see anyone talking about..
Yes! People judge the "usefulness" of the AI generated material by how much they can get away with using it themselves, now. But what happens when more and more is built on top of these generated falsehoods. The errors and chaos bubbles up exponentially.