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So we build AI tooling to parse the internet on our behalf and find us the content we want. News will still be available, and users, to some level of verificati

So we build AI tooling to parse the internet on our behalf and find us the content we want. News will still be available, and users, to some level of verification or another, will still be communicating - we're not all going to just stop using the internet...even with massive amounts of noise it's still better than nothing. We'll just build better and better tools for sifting through the chaos. Probably, we'll end up with a new paradigm for web browsers that involves a lot of filtering on top of the morass of raw internet. Dunno exactly what it'll look like, but it'll probably involve multiple LLMs and some kind of abstraction on top of 'web pages'.

hotpotamus 3y ago
Is it old and curmudgeonly of me to say that sounds terrible and I want no part of it? As though our filter bubbles aren't already driving us into our own realities already.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  I agree. The very notion seems unacceptably dystopian and likely to make a lot of the bad things about the web even worse.
foobarian 3y ago
Maybe the web of trust will finally become a useful tool.
gumballindie 3y ago
Problem is that building these tools at the expense of genuine content creators will alienate said content creators. The end result with be a south park type of human centipede that few sane people will want to be a part of. I expect communities to become more segregated - as in real life where small communities isolate away from criminals - and more closed. It makes sense considering rampant theft, misinformation and ever increasing dubiousness that plagues the internet as a medium - in no small part thanks to procedural content generators that are schizoidly compared to human intelligence.
JohnFen 3y ago
If we need to use AI in order to make the web even moderately useful, then the web is truly dead. > even with massive amounts of noise it's still better than nothing Nothing isn't the alternative. If the web literally vanished tomorrow, we still have other existing ways of communicating, researching, and recreating.

hotpotamus 3y ago

Is it old and curmudgeonly of me to say that sounds terrible and I want no part of it? As though our filter bubbles aren't already driving us into our own realities already.

JohnFen 3y ago
I agree. The very notion seems unacceptably dystopian and likely to make a lot of the bad things about the web even worse.

foobarian 3y ago

Maybe the web of trust will finally become a useful tool.

gumballindie 3y ago

Problem is that building these tools at the expense of genuine content creators will alienate said content creators. The end result with be a south park type of human centipede that few sane people will want to be a part of. I expect communities to become more segregated - as in real life where small communities isolate away from criminals - and more closed. It makes sense considering rampant theft, misinformation and ever increasing dubiousness that plagues the internet as a medium - in no small part thanks to procedural content generators that are schizoidly compared to human intelligence.

JohnFen 3y ago

If we need to use AI in order to make the web even moderately useful, then the web is truly dead. > even with massive amounts of noise it's still better than nothing Nothing isn't the alternative. If the web literally vanished tomorrow, we still have other existing ways of communicating, researching, and recreating.