AI Is Lazy Person Bait — This Is What You Need to Know About the Future of AI on Medium (And the Web)
I’m happy Medium adjusted its policy to be a place for human written content but there is already a flood of spam hitting us.
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5 min readNov 17, 2023
No matter where I go I see them.
Those cringy and spammy buzzwords that scream: THIS IS WRITTEN BY AI.
Here’s an example:
Most writers don’t know that Medium’s CEO, Tony Stubblebine, recently chatted in the “Equity podcast” from TechCrunch about the future of AI.
The title of the podcast was “Why Medium is opting out of AI”.
Stubblebine emphasized that Medium is an exclusive place for human stories and AI shouldn’t be trained on them.
However, I see a lot of “AI diarrhea” (as I call it) INSIDE of Medium’s ecosystem. Let’s say garbage AI writing without any editing.
It feels as if a flood of spam is hitting us.
This makes me wonder about the future of AI on Medium and I’m not alone. Actually, I’m in…
