The Who Cares Era

Dan Sinker wrote about The Who Cares Era:

Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced “special supplement” that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There’s been a lot written about this […]. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.

The writer didn’t care. The supplement’s editors didn’t care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn’t care. The production people didn’t care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didn’t care either.

Read Sinker post.

I mentionned that reading list slop last month. But what Sinker write about is how we have reached a state of no one caring about anything anymore. Honest mistakes that never get corrected¹, deliberate misinformation, and now careless content production, this is all symptomatic. And the AI industry is making the problem many time worse, so much that “GenAI” is radioactive content that will be hard to rid of.