A 'great flood' of AI noise is coming for the internet and it's swallowing Twitter first
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The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    One morning in January this year, marine scientist Terry Hughes opened X (formerly Twitter) and searched for tweets about the Great Barrier Reef.

    Users posted videos showing scrolling feeds with numerous accounts stating “I’m sorry, but I cannot provide a response to your request as it goes against OpenAl’s content policy.”

    Shortly after Mr Musk gained control of X while complaining about bots, X shut down free access to the programming interface that allowed researchers to study this problem.

    Towards the end of last year, Dr Graham and his colleagues at QUT paid X $7,800 from a grant fund to analyse 1 million tweets surrounding the first Republican primary debate.

    A company called Byword claims it stole 3.6 million in “total traffic” from a competitor by copying their site and rewriting 1,800 articles using AI.

    Meta recently announced it was building tools to detect and label AI-generated images posted on its Facebook, Instagram and Threads services.

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