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Comment Re:As opposed to human slop (Score 1) 72

That's the solution they don't like. Rather exclude children and annoy people with content they didn't ask for than remove the anti-patterns. For modern social media you can't even call it enshittification as newer services have such features right from the start. They know exactly what they are doing.

And they intentionally give you some content that you dislike to stir engagement. Every "Slop! Slop yourself!" discussion means people spend time on their site discussing shit instead of touching grass.

Comment Re: Account (Score 2) 69

Do you think the 101st answer for a question answered 100 times before is of value?
I think the parent phrased it right. You get now rewarded for contributing new knowledge, not for parroting something said a hundred times before. Providing something new unfortunately means you need to do more than just find one of the 100 answers, change the writing style and put your own sponsor links in the text to score online points. Maybe we get back to the old web, where people published online because they wanted to contribute and not because they wanted to get many clicks.

Comment Re:I don't like AI answers (Score 1) 69

Google puts favicons of sites next to its answer, perplexity also links all the sources. If you need to know more, click the source links.
Google and duckduckgo just stupidly summarize the top search results (thus also amplifying bullshit in the results), perplexity follows more links than just the first level from the search results, but also adds citations to its claims.

Comment Re:As opposed to human slop (Score 3, Insightful) 72

Now assume a false positive. A user honestly marks something as "AI Slop" even though it is human slop. Now a human operator gets the post together with the bias "marked as 'AI slop'". They will not only see the same indicators that fooled the first human, but also have confirmation bias that 95% of what they get to see is AI generated, so this one probably is as well. Human moderation will not save you here.

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