The general consensus is that the dislike of AI is so strong, that a large chunk of the population will disregard something if they even think it is generated by AI. Also, the LLMs need a continuous feed of new, original material to ingest or they'll be all thumbs.

While the long-running trend of SEO stuffing from low-value content farms has polluted search results for years now, Google didn't really care about fixing that problem because there's a perverse incentive to generate more ad revenue by making the first page results usesless. Who cares about doing the right thing? Daddy's got to get his quarterly numbers up. I should also note that those content farms were also early adopters of genAI as we know it today.

Infinite growth isn't a thing. Every cancer eventually kills its host.

Are you sure that’s the general consensus about AI? HN has a very intense relationship with this stuff, because we have hardcore boosters and hardcore skeptics. Among people I meet offline the feelings seem a lot weaker in either direction.

As best I can tell, your typical person here doesn't tend to hang out with normies, which definitely skews things.

> The general consensus is that the dislike of AI is so strong

This is such an echo chamber. Most people love AI. It's one of the fastest growing types of content across all social media.

The news media is telling us we hate it (eg. John Oliver, 404 Media), but this is not the mainstream consensus. Views and likes don't lie.

"Normies" think this technology is magical. Some organs of the traditional news media are trying to skew their opinions.

I see constant comments on social media complaining something is AI sometimes even when it’s not. Those commenters are all viewing it but they aren’t choosing it. And “likes” absolutely lie because there isn’t a “dislike” option.

> Views and likes don't lie.

If you're saying you have relevant stats, then please, share the stats.