A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture; The New York Times, March 29, 2024

Erik Hoel, The New York Times ; A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture

"To deal with this corporate refusal to act we need the equivalent of a Clean Air Act: a Clean Internet Act. Perhaps the simplest solution would be to legislatively force advanced watermarking intrinsic to generated outputs, like patterns not easily removable. Just as the 20th century required extensive interventions to protect the shared environment, the 21st century is going to require extensive interventions to protect a different, but equally critical, common resource, one we haven’t noticed up until now since it was never under threat: our shared human culture."