> The Dead Internet and the triumph of quantity over quality loom
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The Internet has drowned to death in garbage back when they coined the term "content marketing". That was long before transformer models were a thing.
People have this weird impression that LLMs created a deluge of slop and reduced overall quality of most text on-line. I disagree - the quality arguably improved, since SOTA LLMs write better than most people. The only thing that dropped is content marketing salaries. You were already reading slop, LLMs just let the publisher skip the human content spouter middleman.
Back in my day, we lamented the loss of bang paths for email... and you had to pay Robert Elz to bring in a news group because munnari connected Australia to the world...
always_has_been.jpg
The Internet has drowned to death in garbage back when they coined the term "content marketing". That was long before transformer models were a thing.
People have this weird impression that LLMs created a deluge of slop and reduced overall quality of most text on-line. I disagree - the quality arguably improved, since SOTA LLMs write better than most people. The only thing that dropped is content marketing salaries. You were already reading slop, LLMs just let the publisher skip the human content spouter middleman.