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I suspect in the coming years the Wayback Machine at archive.org will become ever more important - always assuming it's not lost as collateral damage in their c
by robinsonb5 3y ago
I suspect in the coming years the Wayback Machine at archive.org will become ever more important - always assuming it's not lost as collateral damage in their copyright battles. Indexing that dataset and making it searchable would massively increase its value.
My inner conspiracy theorist can't help wonder if the continued reduction in search usefulness isn't part of an ongoing deliberate disempowerment of everyday people - but my rational side says it's merely an unfortunate emergent behaviour of the systems we've built.
- beebeepka 3y agoGenerative Wayback Machine
- civilitty 3y agoThat would be the best thing ever. Just ask GPT to hallucinate an entire page based solely off the URL when it doesn’t exist in the database.
- StableAlkyne 3y agoHonestly, I would love to see a LLM based plugin that would take a website, remove all the tracking garbage and filler, and just give me back a no-frills static html+CSS site that looks like it was made in 1995. "Oh, you want a guide to writing your own loss function for Tensorflow? Here's an FAQ that could have existed on comp.lang.python3.tensorflow"
- creata 3y agoSo you want a... reader mode plugin? How would it use an LLM beneficially?
- zirgs 3y agoLLMs can write summaries of articles.
- thewakalix 3y agoDoes reader mode eliminate "filler"?
- Planktonne 3y agoMore unnecessary technology doesn't solve the problem of too much unnecessary technology.
- __loam 3y agoIt's a consequence of running search as a for profit system. When you're optimizing for revenue, the system priorities are different than if you were optimizing for user experience or true knowledge. Arguably that means that search should be a public utility but then you have to be able to trust your government with your searches and privacy.