• forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    The internet has been primarily derivative content for a long time. As much as some haven’t wanted to admit it. It’s true. These fancy algorithms now take it to the exponential factor.

    Original content had already become sparsely seen anymore as monetization ramped up. And then this generation of AI algorithms arrived.

    The several years before prior to LLMs becoming a thing, the internet was basically just regurgitating data from API calls or scraping someone else’s content and representing it in your own way.

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      3 months ago

      “The three biggest social media sites on the internet are nothing but screenshots of the other two” is how I heard the last 10 years described

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      3 months ago

      Are algorithms considered LLMs now? I didn’t think algorithms of the past (5-10 yrs) were considered AI.