# AI Is Ushering in a Textpocalypse ![rw-book-cover](https://archive.is/tnCyw/6977f99ebe1b8c5d868555b4ca98f0633d2d5d65/scr.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Matthew Kirschenbaum]] - Full Title: AI Is Ushering in a Textpocalypse - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: AI can now generate endless, cheap text that floods the internet. This machine-made content can drown out human writing and corrupt future training data. If unchecked, the web will be clogged with synthetic text and real human prose will become rare. - URL: https://archive.is/tnCyw ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Whether or not a fully automated textpocalypse comes to pass, the trends are [only accelerating](https://archive.is/o/tnCyw/https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622231/cnet-layoffs-ai-articles-seo-red-ventures). From a piece of genre fiction to your [doctor’s report](https://archive.is/o/tnCyw/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/11/doctor-patient-medical-notes-health-info-awareness/672123/), you may not always be able to presume human authorship behind whatever it is you are reading. Writing, but more specifically digital text—as a category of human expression—will become estranged from us. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k91vckexjy4fkhm7hxbe55xw)) > Say someone sets up a system for a program like ChatGPT to query itself repeatedly and automatically publish the output on websites or social media; an endlessly iterating stream of content that does little more than get in everyone’s way, but that also (inevitably) gets absorbed back into the training sets for models publishing their own new content on the internet. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k91tqpv0m4azzhmtwy96pdgy)) - Note: I'm not sure the 'inevitably' is correct here > Think of it as an ongoing planetary spam event, but unlike spam—for which we have more or less effective safeguards—there may prove to be [no reliable way](https://archive.is/o/tnCyw/https://www.reuters.com/business/chatgpt-owner-launches-imperfect-tool-detect-ai-generated-text-2023-01-31/) of flagging and filtering the next generation of machine-made text. “Don’t believe everything you read” may become “Don’t believe *anything* you read” when it’s online. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k91tsaeh5gtwsqfxvg2g7ny2))