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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Meh. Email was going to implode before someone came up with baysean filters and Gmail became a thing. Last time I checked (once in a blue moon), email still works.

Certainly 99.999% of SMTP traffic is garbage but my inbox is still usable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

A web crawler is not comparable to an e-mail inbox.