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Starting to really wonder if the information space we call the web is in-trouble? Like it actually seems like it's happening, everything is getting polluted with AI dog shit?

My Instagram feed is under attack too.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832136

Everything is. Even totally unimportant stuff. Sad beans.

Real-people writing is paywalled. AI garbage and disinformation will always be free.

Going to take a while to adjust for this. Then we have to ask, where do all the writers get their info , how do they avoid it ?

Hopefully with cool journalistic methods such as calling a 1st degree source and talking to them.

So I know this is pedantic but even the person on the other end can be faked now.

Real reporters do things like pursue FOIA requests, interview people and link to original documents.

If the source you're looking at mostly provides commentary on other people's coverage (e.g. the Verge summarizing a paywalled NYT article), that's a good signal for detecting quantity over quality publications.

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