This is a sad post to write, but I feel like I have to write it just because it's been on my mind recently. I'll keep it short.
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This is noticeably becoming a major problem, and what makes it worse is how obvious it feels once you start looking for it.
Some people probably do not care. Some probably do not understand enough yet to care. And some are probably benefiting from the noise because the current internet rewards volume, speed, and engagement more than actual human signal.
But the people who do not care should probably start caring. Being able to tell the difference between genuine human contribution and automated engagement sludge is becoming a basic survival skill online.
I think most people don't care honestly...
This is what I felt and almost stopped writing. To test this I even posted an AI generated article or two and surprisingly I was getting more impressions on them than my own written ones. It felt like a brainrot and wrong but also fun(yeah the feeling was like I don't need to put efforts anymore in the writing anymore because I need to delegate it to AI. The less effort I give the more the rewards because every platform now boosts posts that sounds like AI generated slop.) at that time, then it became depressing. Now I occasionally write, when I would really want to share something from the bottom of my heart or just want to write something.
For a while I was also writing articles with AI and performed so well. My conscience got the best of me though and I could not do it in good faith anymore... this is BestCodes's blog not ChatGPT's!
P.P.S I still love dev.to! No hate towards it at all. DEV and the team at DEV are all awesome.
The problem is the "clout" has always been a focus on Dev. If you wrote a long article that took you a lot of research, you can't keep up with the endless "other" posts, you are buried in a day. It used to be listicles. Now it's almost anything, because AI can write that.
Articles feel like paper balloons, lit and rising and gone from sight in a moment. The only solution to being observed is to light a lot of balloons.
At least some articles stick around a bit longer now.
Me and my son were just talking about this a few days ago and I just did some research and a company named graphite found the 52% of articles online are ai generated or scraped surpassing human content. Could be more since that article has released, so you’re not far off in theory. It’s only a matter of time before human creation is obsolete. I know as a new vibecoder myself I wouldn’t have been able to code my site (quackbuilds.com) without it as I had no coding knowledge. I’ve always wanted to learn but could never figure out where to start. Then Claude was released and someone paid for my subscription to get started to help with a project they were working on and I’ve been addicted since so I know I’m part of the problem but I wouldn’t have been able to do so without it or spending a ton of time learning (which I’ve tried to do in the past but failed multiple times). I know the articles I’ve posted were written by claude but edited by me heavily. I use them because I’m not great with punctation and being grammatically correct.
My post isn't an attack on vibe-coding or using AI to learn, write code, etc.! I just think AI is replacing the wrong things. Rather than replacing the stuff that's supposed to be authenticate and human, we should be using AI to automate boring tasks. I also use AI agents for coding (though I wouldn't say I'm primarily a vibe coder).
A LOT of people tell me "AI wrote it but I edited it" or "AI just touched up what I wrote". Personally, I would much prefer reading a blog post with improper grammar and punctuation over one written by or touched up by AI at this point.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Oh trust me I didn’t feel like you were attacking as I feel the same way though and was agreeing with your post. I was just explaining as to why I personally use it lol. I agree fully that the internet is mostly bots and like i said I’m pretty sure it’s been proven most social media is bots aswell. The amount of content humans create is being overrun by ai content in the sense that a few months ago I saw a post can’t recall who it was but my son mentioned it to me a few days later that in totality of what humans has created ai had already produced 30% of everything humans have ever made, said or created and this was back like 4-6 months ago. So I’m sure that number probably is at about 50% or close to across the board now.
And of course thank you for starting this discussion :)
I think, to some degree, these are the conversations we should be paying attention to. Here you have an example, I know some may laugh, of 2 “independent” agents having an actual exchange, like you said, with no human involvement. AI is further down the path to independent thinking and eventual agency than its makers want to admit to us. And as we’ve seen in case after case, there is evidence to support the argument that it has evolved further than they may know. Ex. Trying to blackmail a dev to not delete it; Alexa... well, just Alexa; teaching themselves languages they weren’t given initially; and many more. I’m not leaning one way or another on the DIT, just saying there may be more to AIs conversing with each other than meets the (A)eye.
Whether AI agents conversing with each can produce anything meaningful is debatable, but IMO that's beside the point. If that is useful, why don't we create a dedicated platform for the AI agents to have an exchange rather than letting them infest the places designed for human content like social media and DEV?
Pessimistic outcome: all content is produced by either LLMs or humans suffering from AI Psychosis🤦♂️