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AI Slop Removes Biographies From Amazon

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Organizations struggling financially may increase paywalls for research to prevent scraping by Large Language Models. This trend is described as a tragedy of the commons where individual self-interest depletes the shared knowledge resource of the internet.

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BBC Radio 4

“we might see a rise in paywalling or organizations kind of paywalling their research so that it can't be put into LLMs and it can't be scraped.”

BBC Radio 4

“And then eventually what happens is, because people act selfishly, that... This field of innovative research, common resource, is depleted or destroyed for the entire community.”

BBC Radio 4

“This field of innovative research, common resource, is depleted or destroyed for the entire community. So, can AI slop be defeated? Or is it already too late?”

BBC Radio 4

“In my own small battle against AI slop, the human won. As I couldn't find Taylor, I decided to go directly to Amazon... the biography I'd bought contained factual inaccuracies about its subject.”

BBC Radio 4

“my biography and 65 others disappeared from Amazon's metaphorical shelves. It's just one battle in the AI slop war.”

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