avatarKristina God, MBA

Summary

The Medium platform is facing a significant issue with AI-generated content, which is overwhelming the site with low-quality, repetitive articles and images, potentially threatening the integrity and appeal of the platform to human readers and writers.

Abstract

The article expresses concern over the proliferation of AI-generated content on Medium, particularly within the Technology topics page. The author points out that the platform is inundated with AI-written stories, especially on cryptocurrency, which are pushing human-written pieces further down the feed. This flood of AI content, including both text and images, is causing a phenomenon referred to as "Medium fatigue." The author suggests that the presence of this content indicates a lack of effective gatekeeping and proposes that users report such stories to improve the situation. The article emphasizes the importance of human-written stories that reflect genuine emotions and imperfections, as opposed to the robotic and soulless nature of AI-generated content. The author also invites readers to connect on Medium and Substack and promotes an AI service that offers similar capabilities to ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) at a lower cost.

Opinions

  • The author is frustrated with the prevalence of AI-generated content on Medium, which they believe is detrimental to the platform.
  • There is skepticism about the value of AI-generated stories, with the implication that they are clickbait and of little substance.
  • The author feels that the oversaturation of AI content on Medium may lead to a decline in the platform's user engagement and overall quality.
  • The article suggests that Medium's current measures to filter out AI content are insufficient and calls for stronger paywalls and more effective gatekeeping.
  • The author is critical of the use of AI-generated images, despite previously being a fan of such technology.
  • There is a clear preference for authentic, human-created content that includes personal touches like typos and genuine emotions.
  • The author encourages collective action among users to report AI-generated stories in an effort to clean up the platform.
  • The author promotes a community-focused approach to writing and engagement on Medium and Substack, as well as an alternative AI service.

Medium Has A Huge AI Problem

Dull AI generated content could kill the platform.

Technology topic page results on Medium

Medium fatigue is a thing.

I love that Medium wants to do something about AI generated content… but I’m sick and tired of still seeing it everywhere.

In the featured image you can see the latest stories that I got showed when I visited the Technology topics page.

When I clicked on “See more stories” this AI diarrhea continued.

No wonder you feel like NO ONE reads your stories when people have to scroll endlesslessy to get to a human written piece.

What do they think?

That we’re stupid?

I guess some people click in these cryptocurrency stories because there are hundreds of them! Hundreds.

See this text?

I could throw up!

What to do about it?

Let Medium know we don’t want to see this anymore. We need a stronger paywall, more gatekeepers.

This dull could kill our beloved writing platform one day in the near future.

Click on the three dots and

  • Show less like this

or (much better!)

  • report story as I did!

There are hundreds of them so you can’t report ALL of them but if we work together Medium will (hopefully) see what’s going on here.

We don’t need more “members” like this.

We don’t need more robotic content here.

We want human-written, messy stories. We want typos. We want emotions.

We want REAL people on images. I’m also sick and tired of all those AI generated images althrough I used to be a huge fan first.

Goodbye DFI.Money Gas and all the other spammers and bots!

We don’t need you here.

Humans, let’s connect on Medium and/or on Substack!

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