Maggie Appleton 写设计、人类学和智能体界面时，习惯先画清楚隐喻，再谈工具。把「The Dark Forest and Generative AI」整理成可阅读的中文笔记：问题在哪、界面默认会把人带去哪、落地时该改什么。原站导航、评论回响和广告已去掉。

A Generated Web

People who have heard of GPT-3 / ChatGPT, and are vaguely following the advances in machine learning, large language models, and image generators. Also people who care about making the web a flourishing social and intellectual space.

The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Yancey Strickler Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.

Passing the Reverse Turing Test

It’s like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees. If they reveal themselves, they risk being attacked by automated predators.

Humans who want to engage in informal, unoptimised, personal interactions have to hide in closed spaces like invite-only Slack channels, Discord groups, email newsletters, small-scale blogs, and digital gardens . Or make themselves illegible and algorithmically incoherent in public venues.

1. Triangulate objective reality

That dark forest is about to expand . Large Language Models (LLMs) that can instantly generate coherent swaths of human-like text have just joined the party.

Over the last six months, we’ve seen a flood of LLM copywriting and content-generation products come out: Jasper , Moonbeam , Copy.ai , and Anyword are just a few. They’re designed to pump out advertising copy, blog posts, emails, social media updates, and marketing pages. And they’re really good at it. Primarily because GPT-3 which powers many of these products was specifically trained on text from the web. It’s intimately familiar with the style of langu

2. Be original, critical, and sophisticated

These models became competent copywriters much faster than people expected – too fast for us to fully process the implications. Many people had their come-to-Jesus moment a few weeks ago when OpenAI released ChatGPT , a slightly more capable version of GPT-3 with an accessible chat-bot style interface. They’re calling it GPT-3.5. It’s the same model with human reinforcement learning layered on top. The collective shock and awe reaction made clear how few p

To complicate matters, language models are not the only mimicry machines gathering speed right now. Image generators like Midjourney , DALL-E , and Stable Diffusion have been on a year-long sprint. In January they could barely render a low-resolution, disfigured human face. By the autumn they reliably produced images indistinguishable from the work of human photographers and illustrators.

3. Develop creative language quirks, dialects, memes, and jargon

Images I generated with Midjourney’s V4 model A Generated Web There’s a swirl of optimism around how these models will save us from a suite of boring busywork: writing formal emails, internal memos, technical documentation, marketing copy, product announcement, advertisements, cover letters, and even negotiating with medical insurance companies .

But we’ll also need to reckon with the trade-offs of making insta-paragraphs and 1-click cover images. These new models are poised to flood the web with generic, generated content.

4. Consider institutional verification

You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven’t seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.

Marketers, influencers, and growth hackers will set up OpenAI → Zapier pipelines that auto-publish a relentless and impossibly banal stream of LinkedIn #MotivationMonday posts, “engaging” tweet 🧵 threads, Facebook outrage monologues, and corporate blog posts.

值得单独记下的观察

• La langue is the formal concept of language. These are words we print in the dictionary, distribute via educational institutions, and reprimand one another for getting it wrong.
• La parole is the speech of everyday life. These are the informal, diverse, and creative speech acts we perform in conversations, social gatherings, and text to the group WhatsApp. This is where language evolves.

落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 先写清这个工具在强化思考还是在替人思考。
2. 默认交互不要只会谄媚：该追问、该给反例、该要求证据。
3. 智能体界面要露出推理步骤，而不是只给一个光滑答案。
4. 知识发布用可生长的笔记，而不是一次性营销长文。
5. 改产品前先画隐喻：用户以为自己在做什么，系统实际在做什么。

和智能体产品怎么接

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