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The old web was killed by the corporate web at least ten years so. The corporate web has created this absolute dumpster fire dystopia of brainless bumblegum lis

The old web was killed by the corporate web at least ten years so. The corporate web has created this absolute dumpster fire dystopia of brainless bumblegum listicles, outrage bait attention economy, and frightening total surveillance secretly destroying people's rights worldwide. I was skeptical of this new wave of AI and still am but the open source side has been absolutely stunning. llama.cpp, whisper.cpp. HuggingFace and all the insane models. The community documenting and converting and explaining models. Let this wave of LLM generated trash choke the gills of content marketing once and for all. If I want mindless content, I'll ask my laptop now, and I won't ask your poor, pitiful click-farmer intern. The corporate web might be good for buying things from companies, but it is an absolute cancer for knowledge and culture.

krapp 3y ago
There's exponentially more knowledge and culture on the corporate web than there ever was on the old web. I know Hacker News is almost universally at the "angry man yelling at clouds" stage when it comes to the web, but there is actually a baby to be lost with the bathwater.
- noman-land 3y ago
  I couldn't agree more about the baby. I've been through many of the stages of grief about what we've lost and what we're losing by letting the web be controlled by... whatever the hell this is. I've tried for years to get people to understand that this web has become diseased. That it harms them in ways they may not understand as a less technical person. No one cares. I'm at a stage now where I stopped caring as well. People will only understand when it affects them personally. It's sad. It hurts me to know that people will get hurt. But the current incarnation of the web needs to implode under the weight of its own garbage so it will finally be so obviously diseased and disgusting that no one will be able to not see it. I say let it happen. I don't know how else to convince people to look away from the box.

krapp 3y ago

There's exponentially more knowledge and culture on the corporate web than there ever was on the old web. I know Hacker News is almost universally at the "angry man yelling at clouds" stage when it comes to the web, but there is actually a baby to be lost with the bathwater.

noman-land 3y ago
I couldn't agree more about the baby. I've been through many of the stages of grief about what we've lost and what we're losing by letting the web be controlled by... whatever the hell this is. I've tried for years to get people to understand that this web has become diseased. That it harms them in ways they may not understand as a less technical person. No one cares. I'm at a stage now where I stopped caring as well. People will only understand when it affects them personally. It's sad. It hurts me to know that people will get hurt. But the current incarnation of the web needs to implode under the weight of its own garbage so it will finally be so obviously diseased and disgusting that no one will be able to not see it. I say let it happen. I don't know how else to convince people to look away from the box.