Is the internet becoming an AI landfill?

互联网正在成为人工智能垃圾填埋场吗?

Round Table China

社会与文化

2025-01-13

24 分钟
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Generative AI is generating an overwhelming amount of spam, fake news, misleading images, and superficial imitations. Are we witnessing the emergence of a new era of digital pollution? If so, can we press the 'reset' button before it is too late? On the show: Heyang, Steve Hatherly & Yushun.
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • Do you agree AI is turning the Internet into a digital landfill and we're all living in it.

  • Generative AI is creating a flood of spam, fake news and images and shallow copycats.

  • Are we witnessing the birth of a new era a of digital pollution?

  • And if so, can we hit the reset button before it's too late?

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  • Coming to you live from Beijing.

  • This is Roundtable.

  • I'm He Young.

  • For today's program, I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yu Shun in the studio.

  • First on today's show.

  • In today's digital age, artificial intelligence or AI doesn't just generate content.

  • It multiplies low quality noise at an alarming rate.

  • The more AI scrapes from the web, the more it learns to churn out shallow clickbait driven junk.

  • As this garbage floods the Internet, it gets recycled and fed back into the system, creating a dangerous feedback loop of digital pollution.

  • Also, finding something real on the Internet is becoming increasing increasingly difficult.

  • While the web is hardly ever a perfect space for genuine connection and knowledge, at least the content was rooted in reality before generative AI.

  • Now it often feels like a digital landfill where bad content breeds more bad content, further distorting the information landscape.