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> Google has all the pieces it needs, it just needs to package them into a seamless experience. Google prefers it would be 2019, when LLMs were a "remote" thre

> Google has all the pieces it needs, it just needs to package them into a seamless experience. Google prefers it would be 2019, when LLMs were a "remote" threat. They don't make more ad money when people find things, they prefer to keep us searching and seeing ads. They will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future. I think AI also presents a huge threat to Meta and other social networks. We can get interactive experiences with AI now. We don't need social networks like before. I personally read as much LLM text as human text in a day because it is so clean and useful. Ads are also under threat. I think web browsers and phones will equip with a layer of "user-agent-ai" where the AI extracts the useful parts from the web and redisplays it for the user under their own controls. You can bet ads are not going to be shown, thrown away together with low quality content. Only AIs will read ads. Search, social and ads are going to be digested by AI and redisplayed for us. We gain control and protection. AI will form a layer of protection when going online, as the web will be crawling with AI bots trying to gain something from us.

melbourne_mat 3y ago
There's an easy fix for AI transforming the output of the Internet giants into useful content for us: just block those AI apps/services. They are determined to be the interface between humans and machines because that is where you make your money.
emporas 3y ago
The advertisement business model of the internet for so long, 20 years plus, is indeed almost irrelevant now. It will collapse like a house of cards. We are heading into a micropayments future. Even products or services of the front pages of websites, which are displayed to users and consumers on a higher priority than others, that's irrelevant as well. Google for the record, didn't want to be reliant on ads for revenue back in 2006 or so, but they failed on the micropayment side. They couldn't achieve less than 0.05$ fee per transaction, which is huge. For micropayments even a thousand times less fee, is probably too much.

melbourne_mat 3y ago

There's an easy fix for AI transforming the output of the Internet giants into useful content for us: just block those AI apps/services. They are determined to be the interface between humans and machines because that is where you make your money.

emporas 3y ago

The advertisement business model of the internet for so long, 20 years plus, is indeed almost irrelevant now. It will collapse like a house of cards. We are heading into a micropayments future. Even products or services of the front pages of websites, which are displayed to users and consumers on a higher priority than others, that's irrelevant as well. Google for the record, didn't want to be reliant on ads for revenue back in 2006 or so, but they failed on the micropayment side. They couldn't achieve less than 0.05$ fee per transaction, which is huge. For micropayments even a thousand times less fee, is probably too much.