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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense
(www.forbes.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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“This highlights issues with A-I generated content crowding out human writers and the need for Google to better regulate such sites to ensure quality.”
Can agree with the first part of that statement, but Google regulating…feels like handing a fox the keys to the hen house.
Regulation of industry should be coming from our legislators, but they’re too busy polarizing their base, abasing themselves to donors and gilding their own cages to care.
Apologies for the rant, but this whole “AI” imbroglio is a textbook case of the cart put before the horse whilst heading downhill.
Regulation should come from the industry not the legislators. Legislators don't know enough about it anyway and will end up just getting the biggest players to write it anyway.
But if the industry does it, certification would be voluntary and it would be transparent who wrote the regulation. Much easier for smaller players to contribute and shape it.
And the best part is that if it sucks, they don't have to participate. And then they can try again
Realistically, the industry here would be Google, Microsoft and Facebook. All of whom I'd definitely trust with this
The legislators themselves should be getting educated instead so they can actually make good decisions.
But that's not what happens.
Greatest recent example is Elizabeth Warren. She supposedly wasn't going to bow down to the big banks and wrote legislation to "help" the consumer. All she did was end up writing legislation that the big banks highly approved of, killed off many of the smaller banks and made banking way less competitive so that the consumers are suffering.
But if you get a coalition (example ICANN) to regulate stuff, you'll get a better mix of both small and large companies.