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1. mikeocool · 1790169022 · focus · HN ↗

   Why do they need real influencers? Don’t they own some of the world’s best AI models that are really good at generating content?

   1. oblio · 1790169636 · focus · HN ↗

      Turns out, people are a lot better at detecting slop than expected. An uncanny slop valley.

      1. dormento · 1790171193 · focus · HN ↗

         And that is incredibly unfortunate to their business strategy.

         But... food for thought: people are good at detecting slop, because it looks like slop. If it does not, people won't detect it. So there is a confirmation bias, where the "obvious slop" looks obvious, but the "better slop" goes by undetected.

         1. oblio · 1790197086 · focus · HN ↗

            1. I would argue that human directed and edited "better slop" is just... average content. Which leads to my next point.

            2. LLMs have raised the floor of digital content creation ("democratized content creation"). Before lots of things would have not been created due to lack of knowledge, interest, motivation. Now the baseline for making something is a 10 word prompt. Personally I think it's a huge loss. Yes, we will get 5% "diamonds in the rough" who would have never approached a field due to gatekeeping, discrimination, whatever. Will that outweigh the other 95% of lazy creators flooding every field with around average content? I'm not convinced. There is a cost to that flood.

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