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stahorn parent
You're doing it wrong: You should just feed other peoples AI-generated responses into your own AI tools and let the tool answer for you! The loop is then closed, no human time wasted, and the only effect is wasted energy to run the AI tools. It's the perfect business model to turn energy into money.
jsheard
You joke, but some companies are pushing this idea unironically by putting "use AI to expand a short message into a bloated mess" and "use AI to turn a bloated mess into a brief summary" into both sides of the same product. Good job everyone, we've invented the opposite of data compression.
gloxkiqcza
Reminded me of this - an URL lengthener: https://looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
throwaway0236
Great cartoon with comment about this problem:

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

taneq
We could call it “bsencode.
tsimionescu
The next HTTP standard should include `Transfer-Encoding: polite` for AI-enabled servers and user agents.
palmotea
Sadly, it might not be ironic. I've encountered many people (particularly software engineers and other tech bros) who assume most written language is mostly BS/padding, and assume the only real information there is what you get get from a concise summary or list of bullet points.

It's the kind of incuriosity that comes from the arrogance from believing you're very smart but actually being quite ignorant.

So it wounds like one of those guys took their misunderstanding and built and sell tools founded on it.

Groxx
of course they are. that way they can sell both the shovels and the shit.
q3k
Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the $100 and eats the pile of shit.

They continue walking until they come across a second pile of shit. The second economist turns to the first and says “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The first economist takes the $100 and eats a pile of shit.

Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you $100 to eat shit, then you gave me back the same $100 to eat shit. I can't help but feel like we both just ate shit for nothing."

"That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by $200!"

globular-toast
I invented a new technique that cuts down on the AI bill. I call it "just send me the prompt": https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/just-send-me-the-prompt/
Anamon
I like how you boiled that down to the core. It can't create information out of thin air; I'll remember that phrasing next time someone sends me a PR with LLM-generated novelizations -- I mean, commit messages -- or tries to get me to read their GenAI book.
jiqiren
that's still a huge waste of time and resources. Rather, Daniel has focused on promoting good use of AI that has yielded good results for curl: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997 https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools...
dandanua
And then alien civilization will wonder how humans went extinct.

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