Two years ago we slowly started, but now we are really getting up to speed. The internet as we know it is
AI can be used like I do, like a spellchecker, to correct grammar, and make translation suggestions. I then use the AI input to create my final version. The result is that some of my texts might seem a bit different than before, common mistakes I used to make no longer appear, but you are still reading my texts, my thoughts and my feelings.
AI can also be used to do it all. I can give it access to my website, and instruct it to post a (made up) story about life, or whatever I think is interesting, once a week. I can specify the number of paragraphs, the topic, the writing style, wether to include an image or not, and the volume of posts I want. Because I want this blog to be about me, and my life, this is not something I will be doing, but in different circumstances it might be a cheap and easy solution to use AI.
This is where we are now. AI is offering easy ways to produce content. For now it is mostly in written form, but video is coming quickly. Soon the most popular sites will be filled by AI generated content, where valuable comments will also be AI generated. We are quickly moving away from a human maintained ecosphere to an huge AI generated bulk of information, which nobody really needs, but is cheap to create.
The future is still a mistery, but it is clear that figuring out what is real, actually real, and not generated will become more and more important. For quick enjoyment of some fun content there is no problem ofcourse, the sky is the limit, but for actual information we need some validation of truth. Already videos about fixing your phone are AI generated and will not actually fix your phone. Recipies include toxic ingredients, like glue, because the AI prioritised the look of the end result. Chat support systems that use AI and advice you to simply end your life. AI used to hiring people that avoid hiring women, the list goes on and on.
The internet is used to feed and train the AI. As more and more AI generated content is published, next versions of the AI, trained with this data will probably get even more things slightly wrong.
The problem of current AI systems is that they are incapable of stating they are not sure, or admin they dont know something. You always get an answer, even if the answer is sometimes wrong. There is no way of knowing if the answer is right or wrong, except by finding the answer yourself, that that is exacly what you were trying to avoid by asking the AI. People want the fast answer, and avoid the search. It is a self-fulfilling cycle where you will eventually get a wrong answer, base your actions on that, and that might result in a catastrophe.
Both of my sons are clearly related to their parents. They resemble me, are intelligent like their mother, and clever like their father. They’re both slim, just like us, and strong like Ana. In many ways, they’re very similar, but even now it’s clear that each is choosing his own path and those paths are quite different.