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Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
Freya Holmér
Freya Holmer delivers a long critique of generative AI, arguing it degrades the internet by flooding it with machine-generated junk. The video grew out of her frustration finding reliable information about a technical file format.
HN people link it when discussing AI-generated spam clogging search results and the broader harm of generative AI to the web.
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