You can ask any writer to write such a thing, using examples, and they could write similar things.
The real problem is that this will get deployed to the internet- there will be people reading HN today that are writing SEO optimised websites, with thousands of articles on a topic, that will just spring out of GPT4's writing, fully formed.
GPT can find the topics, pick a domain name from available ones, churn out the articles. It can all go into templates, with different AI generated graphic design supporting it. Ad supported churned out rubbish.
The writing style can change site to site, long form, short form, informed by current events, whatever. GPT would happily provide the prompts for this variety changing the style based on the topic and target audience.
It seems inevitable to me that the web WILL be full of such sites, and worse, they'll fill the comment sections on "social" sites too.
But? Banning AI isn't the answer, if for no other reason than it wouldn't work.
The real problem lies in the fact that those non existing citations will become real.
Several years back there was a case of an article in Wikipedia that made some unsrourced claims->Journalist that doesn't do verification republishes those claims (without specifying wikipedia as srouce) -> Wikipedia article gets challanged for lack of citation -> the News story first based on wikipedia becomes the reference in the original Wikipedia article. Full circle
It's easy that something like this happens again. chatGPT confidently listes hallucinated sources->media rushes to publish the scoop -> now you have real "sources" for future reference
Seems like there's a bug in that system, it was discovered on accident, and now there is a bot that exploits this flaw.
The fix will most likely have something to do with requiring that citations use primary sources, not just any article on the internet. In then end state, Wikipedia will be much better for it.
At this point, all of this inevitability of our doom is making me want to invest some money into someone who is setting up these websites like this. If the internet is to burn from the inside out I might as well score a buck or two out of it by the time we end up back in the stone age reading hardcopy programming textbooks published before the great AI awakening.
It is a writer. It writes.
You can ask any writer to write such a thing, using examples, and they could write similar things.
The real problem is that this will get deployed to the internet- there will be people reading HN today that are writing SEO optimised websites, with thousands of articles on a topic, that will just spring out of GPT4's writing, fully formed.
GPT can find the topics, pick a domain name from available ones, churn out the articles. It can all go into templates, with different AI generated graphic design supporting it. Ad supported churned out rubbish.
The writing style can change site to site, long form, short form, informed by current events, whatever. GPT would happily provide the prompts for this variety changing the style based on the topic and target audience.
It seems inevitable to me that the web WILL be full of such sites, and worse, they'll fill the comment sections on "social" sites too.
But? Banning AI isn't the answer, if for no other reason than it wouldn't work.