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Will AI Slop Kill the Internet? [video]

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• JohnFen 1y ago
  I honestly think that it might. The web wasn't exactly healthy before genAI. It wouldn't take that much.
  • bediger4000 1y ago
    Bring back UUCP distributed Usenet!
    • JohnFen 1y ago
      Wouldn't work. The problem isn't the transport or UI technologies. It's that the web stopped really being for people.
      • bediger4000 1y ago
        Interesting viewpoint. What do you think caused that? If I start with your conclusion, then work backwards, I see AI/LLMs, monetization via ads (Google + ad tech), advertising corrupting the media it supports, SEO, search in general.
        • JohnFen 1y ago
          It became overly commercialized, so became primarily a way for companies to talk to people and other companies rather than people-to-people. Even social media, although it incorporates person-to-person communication, is mostly just the commercialization of it. It's like we had a vibrant public square that was turned into a strip mall. I suspect that we're mostly on the same page here.