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It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cecirdr to c/technology

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My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.

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[–] megopie 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to be the real result of the large language model hype train, massive floods of basically worthless “content” made simply to pump metrics and fool investors.

I’m not saying that there is no useful applications for the tech just that none of those are particularly marketable nor do they generate a lot of monetizable utility.

And more importantly it’s not AI anymore than auto complete, spell check are. People insisting otherwise almost seem like they’re trying to start cults.

[–] Rentlar 3 points 1 year ago

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