It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
Laughable that as the article begins to talk about publishers the Atlantic paywall shows up. Definitely not another reason why the web is dying.
62So freaking tone-deaf lol. I was just getting into the article and agreeing with them and then the paywall showed up. THATS THE PROBLEM YO
26Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (eg. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)
5The paywalls restrict the flow of quality information, which happened before LLMs started scraping the web. If you don’t have money to spend on all of these news subscriptions you aren’t allowed to educate yourself. It’s class-based gatekeeping, plain and simple. They could tactfully include ads, but no one ever tactfully includes ads. They introduce pop-ups, fullscreen banners, interjections every 25 words, or the best is the articles that are just slide shows that take you through 30+ webpages.
Edit: I’d also like to point out that this article already has an ad at the beginning. So they are still making ad revenue even if they aren’t giving you complete access.
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I had the same laugh. So tone-deaf.
3Is dead, already.
2What would you suggest instead? They can't do this for free.
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The end of the web as I knew it happened 28 years ago, and 20 years ago, and 12 years ago.
35The web is just a fad. We'll go back to watching VHS tapes any day now
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The AI will become utter garbage, mark my words. It will complete the downfall of the internet though first. What will come after internet? Hard to say maybe we will exchange culture in VR? Probably at some point every kind of forum will be unreadable from automated marketing and propaganda. Reddit already is. Lemmy is too small… yet but it will crash even harder if it is noticed by the wrong people. 2 years tops to enjoy this medium
Though I admit I am somewhat of a doomer inclined so maybe there is a way to create alternative that cannot be poisoned
19🎵 it's the end of the web as we know it, and i feel fine 🎵
18No discredit to R.E.M. but my world's been ending for over a decade and I feel like dogshit constantly. Nobody told me the apocalypse would be heralded by the dumbest fucking cryptobros and AI prompters the world's ever seen.
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This reminds me a bit of this photo:
We thought the data was forever, but somehow not so.
14Kagi AI generated summary. (I had to do it)
The web has become an extraordinary public resource, but it is now at risk of being destroyed by the advent of AI. Generative AI models like large language models (LLMs) are disrupting the traditional relationship between writers/creators and their audiences. LLMs can synthesize answers to queries, cutting out the original creators and leading to the rise of "large language model optimization" (LLMO) - manipulating AI outputs to serve special interests. This threatens to degrade the quality of information on the open web, as creators may stop producing content for the public commons. To preserve the web, search engines need to act more like publishers, platforms need to nurture human creative communities, and AI developers must recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy web ecosystem for their own benefit.
11As long as major search platforms are also in the AI business, they have little incentive to change pace.
7Trying to decide if it's too ironic to respond based on that summery.
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I wonder if the nft tech could be used to mark everything real with a proof of authenticity. Then those things that aren’t on the chain would be considered suspicious and you would have automated green border around any content that is authentic and red for the outside of the blockchain
6How could that help at all? Seeing as the blockchain would have no way of telling the difference between human and Ai text, and if you could find a way to automatically verify that in way way that was so efficient you could expect all the text uploaded to the internet you could just run that program locally and not be beholden to people paying a fee to post anything to the internet.
21I think there needs to be some kind of verification process to get on blockchain. Some kind of reputation system maybe
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If everyone can sign their content, who verifies them as "real"?
9that's the point of Altman's Worldcoin Orb. It makes a hash of the picture of your eyeball and stores the hash (not the image) so you can be authenticated as a human.
everyone seems to be utterly freaked out by this.
2So again deleted my comment accidentally omg. I very like this idea. It’s burdensome but every phone already has simillar scanner. I wonder about privacy though. Can it be anonymised like monero?
I imagine it as an optional feature and then verified people can opt in to only show other verified humans in some kind of next gen web similar to fediverse. Then two layers form naturally one of verified humans and the good old internet Wild West.
4Because it's a centralized system owned by a sociopath billionaire gathering unchanging, personal details about swaths of the population using ye olde "for the greater good" adage as the justification. You'd have to be a special kind of fool to go along with it.
3I guess blind people really aren't human... (/s)
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Again?
3AI can’t kill the World Wide Web, capitalism already did.
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