Whoops! Bluesky should get edits

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What I'm hearing for example is that the volume of slop on Steam Next Fest didn't just compete for attention with legitimate games, it depressed user engagement to the point that nobody was getting attention.

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People may joke but this might be where this all ends up: on the industry recreating old forms of gatekeeping so that social proof and webs of trust can be used to stem the tide of low-effort slop, effectively undoing what digital distribution did in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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This is useful as a first hand description of how a certain kind of programmer understood their job prior to LLMs, and also makes clear why that understanding of the work would lead you to think of LLMs as capable of doing it

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There is no alternate design that would prevent this. The tech is fundamentally a tool for flattening things, for amplifying bigotries, for lying. It is always going to find its ways to the worst impulses.

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