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Who's still blogging without AI?

Using AI for text generation is the new normalcy, and we have to accept that it's really efficient and helps us to save a lot of time. Yet, I personally feel that it's kind of polluting the originality of the data on the World Wide Web. I mean, the LLMs are trained on the original data created by humans in the first place; now the same data is being generated by AI, and before long there will be a (I think we're already there) time when it won't be able to distinguish human-created data from AI-generated data. 

By data, I don't mean only text, it could very well be images, audio, and video of all formats. 

Can LLMs change our language, culture as we know it?

Let's try to imagine the bigger picture here. The first generations of LLMs were trained on human-generated data, no doubt. Then the next few iterations might have some polluted data generated from the first few generations of AIs coz they're constantly getting trained on the public Internet. Which means after a few generations, LLMs are being trained on the same data they've written.

When writing the data, human intervention is getting lower and lower as the AIs are getting better and better at their job. 

Which could mean there very well may be a time when humans won't care to look at what AIs are actually generating. So, they could add subtle narrations of their own and subtle changes that most of us won't even notice. Then, just like that, after a decade or a few, there's a good chance that those subtle changes might compound into bigger changes that we don't even see. I don't know what kinda changes that might be, but all I can hope for is that they're for the betterment of human civilization (Oh, I hope so). 

This is not just a hallucination, right? How many automated blogs are out there, just to generate some random articles, and how many social media pages are out there, with all contents are automated and AI-generated? More and more, when humans ignore things that language models create, they may very well try to alter society. 

Without our knowledge, political parties, governments, and large corporations have been using social media and mass media to change society from the beginning. So with the automation and AI generations and models out there, who's to say it won't happen with them? Isn't this concerning?

Historical Authenticity

With all the generated data getting filled up on the web, I think there's a lack of authenticity. Data can be faked, and their sources can be faked and AI-generated. After like 10 years or so with mass produced fake articles and photos, no one would be able to tell accurately what really happened or what really didn't happen. 

Value for the human-generated data

I personally believe there will be a time when authentic human-generated data or natural creativity could be far more valuable at some point. They'll be like handcrafted sculptures or hand-painted paintings now. Originality of the designs and new thinking should be kept going, and people should be educated to use their brains without relying on AI for everything. I don't think it'll be practical to entirely prevent using AI, but some training for your mind is not so bad, a few days per week at least. 

We could spend an hour per week writing an article without AI, or painting something, composing something, develop an algorithm on our own just to keep our minds sharp enough. 

Authenticity standard


I believe it's time to introduce a new authenticity proofing standard. Something like an ID that LLMs or AIs can't generate. For example, we can use a biosignature like a fingerprint or Apple Face ID as the key to generate a signature, and with a provided public key, anyone can verify that it's truly generated by this human. Just an idea still; maybe I'll try to come up with something solid later.


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That's it for now. Just wanted to bring your attention to some things that you may or may not have been thinking about the social impact of LLMs. Also, just to let you know, I'm not against AI. I use ChatGPT, Claude Code, Copilot, CodeX every day. Also, I do work with open source models in my projects so we can't live witohut them.

Would love to hear if there're others who're still blogging without AI. Leave a comment if you do.
Cheers!
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