Ask HN: Is GPT-3 ruining the internet or is it just me?

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Can you elaborate?

I'm just getting a more general evolving sense that the writing/information quality of top results for random topics on Google are diminishing. Probably just in my own little echo-chamber I suppose, thought it might be interesting to hear outside perspectives

Not sure where you are getting the connection to GPT-3, but I think that sentiment around dismissing quality of Google results and the web at large are pretty common among HN users.

I think it is just harder to find fun / small websites and forums than it used to be. A lot of communities are moving to platforms like discord which are not discoverable or able to be navigated easily from a web browser. As for small websites and blogs, I think they still exist, they just seemed to get passed around less often than news articles. I bet that is in part because there are simply less small websites and blogs to be shared than the sheer volume of news articles that come out every hour.

Interesting points, I hadn't thought of the discord-type thing before. I guess my premise is closer to the last point you made, recently found out there's massive networks of 'news' websites all using GPT-3 to produce, well, basically whoever their funders want them to produce. The one in particular had something like 1300 websites within 1 network all owned by 1 small company, with 1 real article to every 100 generated ones. And they were all the exact same positions on highly political stuff. Made me sigh. Thanks for your feedback

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