The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI.

No, but thanks for asking. The rabbit hole still goes far further.

Ghostarchive is apparently blocked from The Atlantic, and other archive options aren’t friendly to VPNs, so I’m afraid I can’t provide an archive link.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It happened long before chatgpt. Subredditsimulator was touted as a “fun game” at first but it was really a testing ground for bot devs. That goes back to like 2016, 6 years before chatgpt.

      Openai was established 2015 though, some of their team was probably already shitting up the internet by then

    • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      One might argue that OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention. Clippy feels quaint. Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?