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Are people fed up of AI or the social media itself? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by cinoreus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So I have been actively reducing my Internet usage mostly due to AI. So I was thinking of creating a curation of non AI content on the internet( as a project) but ngl avoiding the platforms makes me feel better😂.

So here was my question, are people on the internet fed up of AI or the social media itself? Would people actually want a curated feed of non AI content?

The reason why I am asking is, the algorithms. Like, creating a list of non AI art accounts on instagram might be something people want, but Instagram does recommend content that people aren't even following, which I think defeats the purpose of the list. Similarly youtube, though I think for YouTube it makes sense. Btw all this was personal talk, feel free to ignore it and answer the question.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tend to block most of the internet cancer out there and only hang out in places where the internet doesn't suck that hard. Anything touched by Meta is obviously out of the question. So as far as what people generally call social media is concerned, I just avoid all of it. Nothing of value was lost when I abandoned that burning pile of trash. Lemmy is ok though. It's clearly a social media, but everything about it is just so different that it probably doesn't even count as a "social media" in this context.

What about AI then? It's complicated. AI in general is pretty cool, but I'm using that word in a very broad sense. Stuff like isolating human voices from a messy audio signal involves AI. When a camera focuses on a human face, it's using AI. When your postal service uses OCR to read the address off a letter, it's using AI. Oh wait, nowadays even your phone can do OCR. Anyway, none of that really counts in this context, now does it? That's not the AI people are angry about.

AI that generates text, audio, pictures and video definitely counts, but that's just a fraction of what AI really is. It's currently visible, popular, widely used and commonly discussed. That's the type you're really asking about, now isn't it? My answer: it's still complicated. The technology itself is just fine. The way it's used to ruin the internet isn't.

For example, LLMs love to use specific phrases and people love to use LLMs to generate text for anything and everything. What you get is AI slop text that has all the telltale signs of being generated by an LLM and proofread by nobody. The internet is filling up with low-effort trash like that, and I'm completely fed up with all of it. Still not fed up with AI as a whole though. Everything under the peak of that ice berg is still very cool.

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for replying. By AI I meant

low effort, single prompt slops that are filling the internet
Content that's barely distinguishable as AI.

I see though, when I thought of curating non AI content, my first thought was, " why am I getting onto these platforms again" in my head it sounded like trying to pick best stuff on the internet, but then when it comes to Meta platforms, I mostly use it to chat with friends, And open Instagram links if I ever find one, or even check on a few content creators I follow. Same with YouTube shorts, I exclusively only watch omar agamy, a geopolitical news guy.

But yeah for most people like you, it's just better to not go on the websites at all(it's more peaceful). Like, even for me, if it's about having a genuine conversation on Internet, I mostly come to lemmy, unless it's a niche thing, only then I go to reddit. I guess it's better this way, lol.

Thanks. I genuinely think it's a good idea to avoid these sites, but having a conversation over it does help me think more clearly

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I know many people who use meta platforms, and they don’t seem to be very happy with the material they find. AI slop is getting totally out of control over there.

When I want to talk to friends and family, I just give them a call, send an SMS or have a group chat on signal. I don’t need meta platforms for that.

YouTube is a mixed bag though. I still find some value in there, but that’s through sheer quantity of videos in there. Finding good ones is getting harder every year. Alternative platforms are getting better, but the selection seems to be pretty narrow by comparison.