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Excerpt from article: "Platforms need to protect creators of high quality content, but they're in an arms race with AI-wielding creators and the generative AI providers themselves. This arms race means platforms cannot easily disincentivize AI-generated content without undermining incentives for human creators. In some cases they're internally conflicted, because they are a generative AI provider and a social media platform — e.g. YouTube and Google being the same corporation, or Meta being a dumpster fire.
Then there's the fact that users people don't actually enjoy AI generated content as much nor for as long. In a recent survey conducted by writing platform Ellipsus, 97.5% of 4,449 of respondents stated that they actively avoid content they suspect is AI generated. Only 0.1%, six respondents out of 4,449, stated that it was unimportant to them whether or not a piece of writing was authored by a human. There is no organic demand for AI generated content, instead, generated content acts as, at best, a kind of imperfect substitute.
In fact I think its more accurate to categorize AI generated content as a type of forgery. AI-plagiarists rely on people being unable to identify their content as AI generated. A video of a kid playing an incredible drum solo is entertaining if it's genuine, but infuriating if it's AI generated. Sharing the former can be a platonic love language between friends, but sharing the latter is just embarrassing. Regardless, the person that prompted and uploaded the generated video is rewarded for tricking some people, and pissing off others. If AI generated content’s value is predicated on not being identified as AI generated but passing as human created, then what else can we call it except a forgery?"