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unknowing8343, (edited ) in How can people prevent the Dead Internet Theory from becoming our reality?

I have to say that I feel that currently the most consumed contents in the Internet are mostly human-written; and my proof is actually that it is now when the tendency is clearly changing. I have stumbled upon a few AI-generated articles already in the past few months, without looking for them specifically. You could tell because it sometimes focuses on weird details, or even I have seen l some kind of

as an AI, I do not have an opinion on the subject […]

which is so funny when you see it.

So, yeah, it is definitely starting to happen, and in the next few years I wouldn’t be surprised if 30 to 50 % of articles are just AI blorbs built for clicks.

How to avoid this? We can’t. The only way would be to shut down the Internet, forbid computers and go back to a simpler life. And that, for many reasons will not happen unless some world-class destruction event happens.

InternetPirate, (edited )
lemmyvore,

We actually can prevent it. We will go back to human-curated websites, and the links to those websites will also be maintained by humans.

This is how the early web used to work in the 90s and early 00s. We will see a resurgence of things like portals, directories (like the Mozilla Directory project — DMOZ), webrings, and last but not least actual journalism.

Unless Google manages to find a way to tell AI content from human they will become irrelevant overnight because Search is 90% of their revenue. This will kill other search engines too, but will also remove Google strangle-hold on browsers.

This also means we’ll finally get to use interesting technologies that Google currently suppresses by refusing to implement them, like micro-payments. MP are an alternative to ads that was proposed a long time ago but never allowed browser support.

MP are a way to pay very small sums (a cent or a fraction of a cent) when you visit a webpage, and to make it as painless as possible for both the visitor and the website. It adds up to the same earnings for websites but introduces human oversight (you decide if the page you want to visit is worth that fraction of a cent) and most importantly gets rid of the ad plague.

unknowing8343,

I find this very much like a dream that will… stay a dream. Who defines human-curated websites or true journalism if I don’t even really know you are an AI bot?

Also, who says people will not like AI content? Because the world will still be full of the same people who buy Apple products and piss on “green bubble” people.

soloner, in How rich are you?

I’m so rich I don’t cook just doordash and eating out

OsrsNeedsF2P, in How rich are you?

I’m so rich I live below my means!

sicjoke, in Recommend a water pick?
@sicjoke@lemmy.world avatar

Can’t advocate using a water pick enough, especially if you suffer from trapped food / large gaps in your teeth.

I bought a Panasonic from Amazon for under £50.

Hexorg, in Recommend a water pick?

My wife is an RDH and she got us this one www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFQQ0VU it’s expensive but I love it - ever since I started using it I have less build up (according to my dentist) and my gums don’t hurt at all. The first few times I used it it was also very gross because whatever tiny food particles it picked up from my gums smelled very bad.

The only word of caution is if you have prosthetics/crowns/dentures you need to select a tip that is made for that job. The default tip might not clean right or even break some of the smaller parts (the pressure level can be adjusted so it depends on what can you tolerate, but over time you’ll be able to tolerate more and more pressure because your gums will heal)

EyesEyesBaby,

Waterpik means Waterdick in Dutch.

Scew, in How rich are you?
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I’m so rich, I can afford to maybe shop at mid-tier grocery stores comfortably like once every two months. :D

primevandal, in Recommend a water pick?

i cant believe the first lemmt-influenced purchase i want is a waterpik. way to go lemmy!

WraithGear, in How can people prevent the Dead Internet Theory from becoming our reality?
@WraithGear@lemmy.world avatar

I find it odd that it’s multiple times reinforced that its a conspiracy theory, even unprompted. Like its happening, it’s just by what degree would we consider the internet “dead”.

Scew,
@Scew@lemmy.world avatar

That’s been the meta for awhile. Anyone with a stake in something vehemently tries to discredit anyone’s skepticism by calling them a conspiracy theorist. Manipulating high-traffic social media with bots likely pays well.

JuxtaposedJaguar, in What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

“Vending machines are more deadly than sharks”.

While it’s true that (at least for some years) more people are killed by vending machine accidents than shark attacks, your personal risk depends on what you do. If you’re a vending machine factory worker who never goes into the ocean, you’re far more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark. But if you live in a part of the world that doesn’t have vending machines and you swim in the ocean every day, the reverse is true.

MrPear,

Wait, so you’re telling me that there are no vending machines in the ocean that are preying on people swimming in the water?

Hupf,

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Storca,

Num num

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Candelestine, in Lemmy/Fediverse Karma possible?

This is one of the primary differences between us and kbin. They have a karma system, we don’t. Otherwise the two systems are pretty fundamentally similar.

So, people who wish that have their option. Those that do not, come here. As a result of this basic sorting of the market, you will find that most of us Lemmings are not in favor of it.

Toothpickjim, in Lemmy/Fediverse Karma possible?
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Karma was one of the worst things about Reddit imo all the farming and low effort posts, let’s not repeat things again

sausagemeatus, in You now have a 1 billion $ bounty on your head and every armed man on Earth is on to you. What do you do to survive as long as possible?

I’d join the hunt

GalacticBagelHole,

Tonight, Gherman sausagemeatus joins the hunt.

grabyourmotherskeys, in Recommend a water pick?

I purchased a generic one. It’s no longer sold on Amazon.ca.

Search for “water flosser” or “oral irrigator”.

I paid under $50 CDN and no complaints.

I have crowded teeth and various issues that mean this is a much better option for me than normal flossing and use it regularly.

djsaskdja, in I miss /r/nosleep

!nosleep - 5 subscribers !NoSleep - 5 subscribers !NoSleepOOC - 0 subscribers

notsofunnycomment,
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YSK that the number of users that is shown in the community overview is the numbers of users from your instance that are subscribed. So in your case that is reddhat.online. (Doesn’t mean that the communities you’re linking to are big, but it does mean that you’re not seeing the full picture. There are places that do contain more general information, like browse.feddit.de.

morgan_423, (edited ) in Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls?
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Something I take some comfort in is that regardless of what your soul does upon death in the short term (whether it’s an afterlife of some sort that we don’t understand, a nihilistic void of nothingness, reincarnation as the soul attaches to a newly created body somewhere else in the world… whatever, no one alive truly knows or could ever know), science believes in a sort of reincarnation.

Where eventually as step one, everything that ever was ends up in black holes, and those black holes eventually decay until the universe is nothing but a uniform background of unchanging radiation, referred to as the heat death of the universe (because nothing can really physically change on macroscopic scales anymore, in order to convert energy into new heat).

And then, after ridiculously long time periods, quantum fluctuations cause the machinery of the universe to start back up again, everything re-forms, and eventually our universe ends up back where it started at the beginning of your life.

So it’s possible that you will live again, and again, and again, forever, just with no ability to remember how it went down last time. And an incredibly long wait between lifetimes (though, to be fair, if death is a nihilistic void for each person, that wait is only going to feel like two seconds and bam, you’re right back in the womb).

So if nothing else, at least there’s that.

Kissaki,

That's still "you" when no molecule was left of you?

morgan_423,
@morgan_423@lemmy.world avatar

It’s still an exact arrangement of matter that’s identical to your original configuration. So one would think that all the properties arising from it (such as consciousness) would be the same. So it’s You Part 2 (or Part two quintillion, there’s really no way to know which loop we’re on).

Kissaki,

I'd consider that identical, but not the same

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