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What worries me is that my own cognitive filters are often unable to distinguish between AI generated content and the "real thing". Very worrisome in its implications as mimicry increases.

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It will definitely lead to a new cottage industry of AI "watermarking" and forensics, though that will likely be more accurate for audio and video than text. We're already seeing teachers running submissions through supposed "AI checks" and finding false positives ranging from original essays to flagging the US constitution as likely written by AI 🙄 Certainly mind-bending times...

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Wanted to share this relevant story I just came across as an addendum: "AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists" -> people are finding ways to monetize spamming e-books of literal incomprehensible AI-generated garbage

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7b774/ai-generated-books-of-nonsense-are-all-over-amazons-bestseller-lists

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