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I’m convinced the ai recommendation audience is the origin of the “death of the internet”
by ticviking 5y ago
I’m convinced the ai recommendation audience is the origin of the “death of the internet”
- smordistan 5y agoIt certainly seems like a watershed moment where the primary purpose of our machinery has shifted to serve the machines instead of the people.
- mistrial9 5y agomanagement ownership of algorithmically-generated profits, the machines dont care
- Jaruzel 5y agoIn tens years time, the internet will be purely services and content created by machines, for consumption by other machines.
- dividuum 5y agoThere is a conspiracy theory named "dead-internet theory" that postulates that this has already happened.
- Lammy 5y agothe money*
- gigaflop 5y agoAI usually starts off as a way to serve humans, but mostly benefits the humans who create it, as opposed to the humans who use it. After a while, things seem to slide towards the dystopian, as the AI optimizes(or is optimized by the owners) to keep users present at all costs, to the benefit of the owners. I relate AI feeds, management, recommendations, etc with Dwarves and the Mines of Moria. At what point will we have dug too greedily and too deep? Those goblins crawling around down there can be representative of the users who get stuck in the system, being fed trash, and being kept discontent.
- mostlysimilar 5y agoI agree. How do we fight back?
- ticviking 5y agoI think the only real way is to self-host, and rebuild a kind of "craftsman movement" of code and system-administration.