AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet · Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
AI生成内容充斥互联网,从视频、音乐到新闻和书籍,虚假信息变得难以辨别。适合练习辨别信息真伪、批判性思维及科技相关内容。
AI Slop is saturating the internet and things are becoming dramatic pretty quickly.
AI相关的内容正在充斥着互联网,情况正在迅速变得非常复杂(或:情况正在迅速恶化)。
In an online world where money is made with attention, fake users spread their slop in review sections,
在这个通过吸引用户注意力来赚钱的在线世界里,虚假用户会在评论区散布他们的恶意言论或虚假评价。
generate fake traffic or poison discourse.
生成虚假的访问量(即虚假的网站流量),或发布恶意、煽动性的言论。
AI has supercharged this and made slop much harder to spot.
人工智能极大地提升了这一技术的效率,使得那些质量低劣的产品(或数据)更难以被察觉(或识别)。
Today about half of internet traffic is bots, the majority of them are used for destructive purposes.
如今,大约一半的互联网流量来自网络机器人(bots),其中大部分被用于破坏性目的。
It's never been easier to make mediocre content – from the black hole of meaninglessness that is LinkedIN,
如今,制作平庸的内容变得前所未有的容易。无论是通过 LinkedIn 这个毫无意义、充斥着虚假信息的平台,还是通过其他各种渠道……
low effort short videos just engaging enough to hypnotise kids and fry their attention spans, to endless soullessly rewritten books on amazon.
这些制作成本低廉、制作过程简单的短视频,虽然还算具有一定的吸引力,但足以让孩子们“着迷”(实际上只是让他们无法集中注意力);而亚马逊上那些被反复改写、毫无内涵的书籍,则充斥着类似的“内容”。
AI music is invading streaming platforms.
人工智能生成的音乐正在逐渐充斥各种流媒体平台。
Google AI is summarizing websites instead of sending traffic to them.
谷歌的人工智能系统现在会对网站内容进行总结,而不是将这些网站的内容直接发送给用户。
On Youtube, new channels publish long form videos multiple times a week with AI generated thumbnails, voices and scripts.
在 YouTube 上,新的频道每周会多次发布时长较长的视频,这些视频配备了由人工智能生成的缩略图、语音以及预先编写好的剧本。
True crime, video essays, science, no space is safe.
真实犯罪事件、视频评论、科学内容……没有哪个领域是安全的。
We’re in the golden era of soulless slop.
我们正处在一个毫无创意、质量低劣的产品的“黄金时代”……
And sadly, actual creative human work is used to train these AI models.
遗憾的是,真正具有创造性的劳动成果被用来训练这些人工智能模型。
Every reddit comment, original YouTube video or human drawing on deviant art has been sold out to the AI companies.
每一个 Reddit 评论、原创的 YouTube 视频,以及那些出现在 Deviant Art 网站上的手绘作品,都已经被人工智能公司买走了。
Or straight up stolen by them.
或者干脆就被他们偷走了。
Without attribution or payment to the actual creators.
未经原作者的授权,也未向他们支付任何报酬。
Creative theft on a scale where it
这种“创意剽窃”的行为规模之大,实在令人震惊……
is impossible to protect against it, already putting loads of creatives’ work in danger – so AI companies can get rich.
根本无法防范这种威胁;大量创意作品因此面临被破坏的风险,而人工智能公司却因此能够获利。
While this is sad and frustrating, what’s even worse is that generative AI truly has the potential to break the internet irreversibly.
虽然这令人感到悲伤和沮丧,但更糟糕的是:生成式人工智能确实有可能对互联网造成不可逆转的破坏。
By making it harder and harder to tell what is true.
通过让人们越来越难以分辨什么是真实的(即通过不断制造混淆或误导),从而达到某种目的。
At First AI Looked Great!
起初,人工智能技术看起来非常棒!
A kurzgesagt script starts with basic research that is turned into a script and then fact checked in depth by 2-3 people.
简而言之,一个剧本的创作过程始于基础研究;这些研究成果会被转化为具体的剧本文本,随后由两到三人对其进行深入的事实核查(即验证其内容的准确性)。
We try to confirm our info with what we deem trustworthy, ideally first hand sources, ideally papers.
我们会尽量通过我们认为可靠的信息来源来验证自己的观点;理想情况下,这些信息来源应该是第一手的资料,比如学术论文。
Then we get 1-3 experts for input and critique.
随后,我们会邀请 1 至 3 名专家提供意见和反馈。
Fact checking and compiling our sources alone takes around 100 hours per video.
仅对事实进行核查、整理相关资料以及收集信息来源,每个视频就需要大约 100 小时的时间。
Of course we make mistakes or oversimplify, and you can disagree with our conclusions – it’s unavoidable, we are only human after all.
当然,我们可能会犯错,或者把问题过度简化;你也可以不同意我们的结论——这是不可避免的,毕竟我们只是普通人罢了。
But it is fair to say that our process is extensive and after a decade, we know what we are doing.
不过可以公平地说,我们的流程相当繁琐;经过十年的努力,我们现在确实已经掌握了如何做好这项工作的方法。
When AI appeared we were very excited.
当人工智能(AI)出现时,我们非常兴奋。
A mechanical brain able to super quickly collect information!
一个能够超快速收集信息的“机械大脑”!
So we went to work and it looked amazing!
于是我们开始动手制作,最终成品看起来非常棒!
And then we started fact checking.
然后我们开始进行事实核查。
We didn’t expect it to be perfect – but it was way worse than we thought.
我们并没有期望它能够完美无缺,但实际情况比我们想象的要糟糕得多。
Confidently Incorrect – AI is SO Bad at This We’ll summarize and generalize our experiences over multiple projects and months condensed into one fake project.
自信地犯错”……人工智能在这方面表现得实在糟糕至极。我们将多个项目及数月来的经验总结归纳,浓缩成一个“虚构的项目”来展示这一现象。
A video about why Brown Dwarfs are the worst and should be ashamed of themselves.
一个视频,解释了为什么棕矮星是最糟糕的“存在”,它们应该为自己感到羞愧。
So we got all the pro accounts of all the AI models and got to work.
于是,我们获取了所有 AI 模型的专业账户(即拥有高级权限的账户),然后开始着手工作了。
Using deep research tools to create a summary and overview of all the information about the failed stars,
利用深入的研究工具,对所有关于这些“失败恒星”(即那些未能正常演化的恒星)的信息进行汇总和梳理。
brown dwarfs.
棕矮星。
And wow it was great!
哇,真是太棒了!
Dozens of pages of outlines with unique information nuggets and links to sources!
这些大纲文件共有数十页,其中包含了丰富的信息要点以及指向相关资料来源的链接。
Then we started to look deeper.
然后我们开始更深入地研究。