alt Hacker NewsComplaints of AI are like a form of friction that eventually goes away. Either AI will undergo a change to create more approachable material, or in general people's tastes will change as they accommodate the style and get used to it. Or some mix of the two. As young people continue to grow up reading AI generated content they will likely begin to find that person written content from before AI grates on their nerves. More, they'll even ask AI to reword documents into preferable AI-like styles.
As an older person, AI grates on me, but I found the meat like "It is a triple store written in a vocabulary of 181 entity classes and 278 predicates: every row is a subject, a predicate and an object. The subject is an entity (a person, an app, an event); the object is either a plain value (a name, a handle, a date) or another entity, which is where the graph gets its edges. The predicate is the interesting part: it says what kind of relationship the system believes holds between the two" quite approachable.
So it was like a meal where I just have to push, say, mushrooms aside as best I can to get to what I like. And there was a time I would have refused the entire plate because I truly abhor mushrooms. I blame watching Matango as an impressionable child.[0]
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Sorry your comment got dinged. I assume the reference to age triggered that. Ageism is a very, very real thing, hereabouts.
I think it was insightful and relevant. I am not a “slop enthusiast” (a great term), but I am a longtime student of human nature, and basically agree with the premise.
Like it or not, slop is here to stay. It’s up to us, to guide and shape it into a net benefit.
It is funny to me how slop enthusiasts argue from the past and the future to deny the present state.
"Slop is here to stay so you better get used to it because slop is inevitable and you will be left behind."
It is both already a cemented permanent presence and destined to arrive by an unbreakable prophecy at a date TBD.
>Complaints of AI are like a form of friction that eventually goes away.
This. Already there is evolution in AI-related comments here.
For example, a year ago they often featured remarks like "I know AI when I see it: here are unmistakeable 'tells.'"
Then there would be a lively back-and-forth about the validity of the stated giveaways.
Such "How I know it's AI"-type comments no longer appear.