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We killed forums and now were killing specialty websites. Soon we will get right back to pre internet levels of knowledge. Ai will be able to find all the stuff

• bluefirebrand 1y ago
  I wonder how long it will take AI agents to automatically make accounts and submit credit card info to scrape data that is paywalled I don't think there is any reason they couldn't do that
• ryandrake 1y ago
  The Internet had plenty of specialty knowledge before "Gathering that knowledge, SEOing it, and stuffing ads all over it" became a viable business model, and it will have plenty of specialty knowledge after this era is over.
  • nicbou 1y ago
    Specialty knowledge can also be a guy reviewing air purifiers with obsessive care. It can be someone writing detailed travel guides or in my case an essential resource for immigrants. There were a lot of good websites, and if you could not find them, blame Google for letting its search engine go to the dogs. Gathering that knowledge is work, and if anyone should capture that value, it's the people doing the work. Seeing bug tech slurp it all up, insert inself in the middle and capture all the value is heartbreaking. I hate that AI is destroying the economics of the independent web, and people cheer for it because they landed on Forbes one too many times. It's insulting to all the people who did their job right, and still get their work slurped up by an uncaring corporation with no way to stop them. We will get the web that we deserve.
• tayo42 1y ago
  That was already dying if not dead thanks to YouTube and short form video being the preferred way for people to make content and I guess consume