The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Audio
DownloadVideo
Watch on YouTubeTalk description
The web is already an eerily lifeless place filled with automated predators like bots, advertisers, clickbait attention-grabbers, SEO-optimisers, and angry twitter mobs - and they now have a generative AI hammer to swing. When language models can churn out millions of human-like words, images, and videos in seconds, what happens to human creation and connection on the web?
About Maggie Appleton
Built an elaborate Neopets page using only the HTML <table>
element for positioning and layout. Graduated to maximalist design aesthetics and animated cursors with CSS on MySpace.