In order for the AI to get better by reading people’s posts we, the humans, have to start posting better. It’s not actually learning. It’s just predicting what should be next. And this is the real world. So asking people to voluntarily be better isn’t happening any goddamn time soon. (Especially not with the profit motive of Damocles dangling over our necks.) So this was always bound to happen. There is no graduate school of internet comments that the AI can attend after it’s done scraping Reddit.

And you know what I am certain of? That none of this tech is making us better. It might be making us worse! At least on the internet we certainly aren’t all our best selves! And it’s learning from that version of us. And that’s the last real shit it will “learn” from. I’m so glad that the financial wellbeing of billions of people will be impacted if this godforsaken behemoth collapse.