You are now entering the tech dark ages.

They will leave.

We're approaching a period where people disengage from an Internet full of AI slop. People are going to stop going to major sites as often, they'll stop browsing through store listings, and ultimately marketing, the major source of profit for internet companies, will retract.

Only in Internet Time. The greatest resource and invention of humanity will be reduced to ruins by billionaires trying to shake out the last penny for themselves. It will take much less time to do this than it took to create it.

I want to know which content is AI generated and have a way to block it completely. Youtube is now flooded with so much AI garbage content. I want a way to say 'hide AI crap from my feeds'. I pay for Youtube (to remove Ads) but I consider stopping this because the content is AI garbage more than ever.

I'm talking about Youtube but it must be the same for any Web sites, music, ... I want a 'Hide all AI created crap' button/settings.

Google's cached webpages are no longer available for individual consumption, and it's dawning on me it may be for this very reason. By keeping their cache private they are keeping the value of it (IE pre-AI era) for themselves. Perhaps for use in training since it hasn't been corrupted with AI generated content.

The Internet Archive is a great thing, but it's by no means browsable in any useful way. It's mainly for viewing a specific page's archive, with gaps and disassociations between the specific times things were crawled.

I'm wondering what it would take to identify and label "pure" internet content that at the very least already existed prior to AI and is unchanged. You know how a browser tells you a website is "secure" and certified, etc? How about one that indicates that the page's content pre-existed AI. It could grab the page from the Internet Archive, generate a checksum, and compare it to the live version. Lots of caveats of course, like filtering dynamic content (ads and the like) that do change.

I've seen websites full of copied and made-up redundant content for years, the only thing different is that it can be created in the blink of an eye now.

Whenever I go through the results of a search (DDG), I skip those with suspicious domain names that reek of bait. I've been skipping a lot more in the last half year and the worst thing is there's too much Reddit results left over, often useless.

"Am I worried? Yes, I'm very worried," he told Bloomberg.

You're way too late, pal, you should have started worrying about 20 years ago.

Seriously, it's all over. The proliferation of AI slop is here to stay and it's only going to get worse. Much, much worse.

As I've said before, it won't be long before you won't be able to trust anything you see on a screen no matter what it is, from chemical formulas to muffin recipes. Statistics and "facts" will ALL be suspect.

The real "source of truth" in this world will soon be whatever was printed on paper before 2020.

...increasingly useless as they push ads and suggested content

It's hard to imagine that AI slop will make it worse

he nailed it with the whole Blackwall idea.

AI has to learn/remember stuff, so vast amounts of other peoples data will have to be cloned and stored somewhere. And then AI massages that data a few times

Some sites reject AI answers, those sites will remain 'pure' to some extent

Only thing worse than AI Slop is Pay Wall slop.

As long as they have 'engagement' they don't give a shit what slop they're feeding you. I still use Facebook periodically (don't judge me! older family members still use it to keep in touch), and I've noticed the amount of shitty AI content on the feeds, suggestions, etc., has exploded in the last couple of months -- fake animals, fake people, fake incidents, etc. I use some extensions/add-ons to mitigate/block the worst of it, but it's still so much shit. Dead Internet indeed.

FB/Meta could undoubtedly do