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waterTanuki | on: Stop Sloppypasta
I find your comment disingenuous at best.

> The internet was not a bastion of high quality content or discourse pre-AI.

I have read thousands upon thousands of pages of AI-related discourse, watched hundreds of videos since 2022, maybe even a thousand now on it. NEVER at any point in time did people opine for the "high quality" internet of before. They opined for the imperfect HUMAN internet of before. We are now seeing once pristine, curated corners of the internet being infected with sloppypasta.

This is quite a broad brush to paint the internet with. It's like saying The Earth is not a bastion of warzones/peaceful places to live. That is HIGHLY dependent on location.

marcus_holmes | parent | next
Sorry, not related to your point, but the language:

To "opine" is to give an opinion on something.

To "pine" for something is to wish for it, usually in a nostalgic sense.

I get how the two are related and can be confused, especially when you're talking about comments on the web. Just thought I'd clarify.

madrox | parent
Even before AI, the human social internet was loaded with bots and disingenuous actors. You want the imperfect human internet that is also pristine and curated. I've been socializing on the internet since 1994, and I feel fairly confident in sharing that this never existed, except in nostalgia.

If that's what you're pining for, you're going to have to find a highly protected part of the internet that is walled off from untrusted actors. However, that's always been the solution, and AI doesn't change that.

fzeroracer | root | parent
And since the foundation of the internet, the correct response to bots and disingenuous actors has been to a) ignore them b) ban them and c) ostracize then. We're talking about basic behaviors that have been understood since Usenet, something you surely should be aware of since you grew up in that era.
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