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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 23h \ on: Does the Stacker News model of internet forum disincentivize AI slop? meta
Yes and No. If AI slop posters can earn more sats than the cost to post it will incentivize more AI slop but I think that isn't a sustainable strategy for a poster as eventually people will grow tired of them posting AI slop and they will stop zapping them.
It's like the bots (I assume they were bots) that used to post in Sports. At first I was zapping them as I do all posts in sports but I stopped because they just posted repeated nonsense maybe just one picture or one standings table without any context. I even started downzapping them and it seemed to stop pretty quickly. I think it would be similar with AI slop posts.
I think you are on to something here. Sometimes it makes sense to zap a post or comment for reasons other than the content.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned posting fees yet. If we assume the slop appears for purely pecuniary reasons, higher posting fees should fix it.
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I think so. I do think it is territory specific though. Some territories like News should probably have low posting fees and be trying to get a lot of posts per day. Technically specific territories like security or territories like econ that attract longer form posts and discussion should probably have higher posting fees.
They should all have a barrier for entry for bots and AI slop though. I wonder if we could figure out what that fee would be.
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It's more than 100 sats.
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