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- cross-posted to:
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- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.
It’s increasingly clear that with AI tools being trained based on leeching content from the internet, and the internet getting absolutely filled with AI created content, this will just create a non-sensical loop that eventually will either really slow down AI development and boost the price of custom tailored data sets, or customer-facing generative AI will implode and become really bad to the point of being mostly ignored.