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Back in the web-traffic-obsessed days of 2018, at a time of dawning awareness of how easily audiences online could be manipulated and spoofed by bots, the writer Max Read argued that the internet had crossed a threshold known as “the Inversion.” Not only had bots proliferated across the internet; they had come to constitute it.
Key facts
Culturally, the flood of slop, AI influencers, fake accounts, and AI tools is blurring the lines of an already post-truth age
AI companies use the term human-in-the-loop to describe the relationship between humans and AI tools in everything including chatbots and warfare
Last week, after the literary magazine Granta published the Commonwealth Short Story Prize–winning story “The Serpent in the Grove,” suspicious readers began to point out what they believed
Autonomous AI agents roam the internet, answering emails, sending texts, and occasionally deleting the code repositories of entire companies
Summary
Today, “the Inversion” feels almost quaint. Autonomous AI agents roam the internet, answering emails, sending texts, and occasionally deleting the code repositories of entire companies. AI is driving people insane in all kinds of ways. Its overwhelming speed and existential stakes have given rise to generalized malaise and hostility directed at the industry, to say nothing of actual cases of AI psychosis. Culturally, the flood of slop, AI influencers, fake accounts, and AI tools is blurring the lines of an already post-truth age. People who don’t feel empowered by all of this are unmoored.