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Why would slop be the only outcome?
throw646577 | parent
Even if the AI produces a pearl, it is going to drown it in shit. Because it is an automated operation.

No new AI content generation advance has so far escaped being used for the equivalent of SEO spamming, long-tail flooding the market to mislead consumers and lazy “passive income” bullshit.

No AI content generation advance ever will; it’s not like industry is going to hold back and say: not this one, guys. It’s too good. We’re going to let it have three years in a custom built home studio to make its magnum opus.

mcculley | root | parent
I think you are conflating how models are used by services like Spotify with what they can do. I run some models locally. These are going to become more powerful.

Your confident prediction of the future limitations of models sounds like what the chess and go masters said.

throw646577 | root | parent
I'm not conflating anything. I am just answering the question of why slop can be the only outcome.

On a Spotify-level scale, web-level scale, slop can be the only outcome.

mcculley | root | parent
The question I asked was specifically about locally generated content.
throw646577 | root | parent
But it's in the context of an alternative to a Spotify product, right? With millions of users.

Exactly where the slop is generated, or by whom, is essentially irrelevant: at scale, slop is the only outcome from these tools. It always will be.

And presumably in a resource-limited environment, slop quality is even more likely.

mcculley | root | parent
Billions of users, with increasingly powerfully hardware, locally executing models that better understand the world and human psychology.