Why is "#AI" being crammed into everything these days?
Most would answer that it's simply about shitty #AIslop generators desperately looking for a valid "use case".
I believe they're not. I'd rather say that AI companies are desperately looking for genuine, human-written, and above all: free text samples for model training.
Like people barely understanding that whatever "free" apps they're downloading to their smartphones are merely vacuuming in their data, in return for peanuts; they don't understand that what they are typing by hand is highly sought after, too.
For a while, "AI" companies could counter #DigitalBSE by obtaining genuinely human training data from "partnerships" with platforms like reddit. But that's a one-shot workaround, with those platforms being flooded with "AI" slop, too.
So companies need an alternative, constant, and free supply of training data that is guaranteed to be of human origin.
This is why you get to "chat" with "AI" for "free", and why terms and conditions make it perfectly clear that all your input will be used for model training.
This is also why "AI" gets crammed into each and every software that is (even remotely) used to maintain any text bites typed by humans. Your issue trackers; your CRM software; just about everything that has text edit fields.
Ironically, people fighting back against "AI" slop are creating corpora of text that "AI" companies can't wait to get their greedy fingers on.
For the time being, anything that runs on a smartphone is considered to be the greatest source, simply because a smartphone has a human owner.
Ironically, adding more and more "AI" "assistants" to phones will poison this well with slop, too. And adding "AI" to other software will, eventually, also poison all alternative wells that AI training wants to drink from.
But none of this matters, or will change anything, as long as you believe you are having genuine "conversations" with a bullshitting text generator.
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