Ted Gioia, in his superb Substack “The Honest Broker,” recently verified one of the most disturbing trends in technology today: the way the presence of AI-created art and images is destroying our access to human-made art and images. Google Images, Gioia finds, has started prioritizing AI-created “portraits” of famous individuals even when human-made portraits exist and are readily available. In addition, as AI-created content floods the internet, these systems use that content in its own training, which leads to AI-model degradation and eventual collapse. We are perched on the brink of a bottomless pit of AI-created dreck devolving into nonsense at best (Eldritch Horror at worst), and the ground beneath us is crumbling.
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