The Internet Is Already Broken
We recorded 3 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 1 more is held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (3)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Observation
“People are concerned that AI is going to turn the internet into a porridge of low-quality service journalism and/or ecommerce marketing, and I’m not worried because that’s what the internet already is.”
Our reading: Zitron says he personally is not worried by fears that AI will turn the internet into a porridge of low-quality service journalism and/or ecommerce marketing, because that is what the internet already is.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The judgment depends on preserving the sentence’s broad scope.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“AI might help profligate this kind of content, but you are completely delusional if you can’t see that the modern content mill of the internet is already full of crap specifically built to convince Google to give it more traffic.”
Our reading: AI might help spread this kind of low-quality content, but the internet's modern content mill is already full of crap specifically built to convince Google to give it more traffic.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Support rests on detailed reporting rather than a representative prevalence estimate.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Forecast
“While AI will undoubtedly help us become more monetized and more interrupted by billion and trillion-dollar enterprises, it’s arguable that we haven’t already entered a digital society where the corporations are completely in control.”
Our reading: AI will help large corporations monetize and interrupt internet users more.
Settled before its deadline Evidence as of
Limitation: The result depends on counting embedded commercial messages as interruptions.
Held from this post (1)
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