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>"Why didn't the semantic web happen?" Because web content is generated by humans, not engineers.

• abeppu 1y ago
  But also because companies that produce web content wanted it to be seen by humans who would look at ads, not consumed by bots and synthesized with other info into a product owned by some other firm.
  • dreamcompiler 1y ago
    And yet today most websites are being scraped by LLM bots which don't look at ads and which synthesize with other info into a product owned by some other firm.
    • 1gn15 1y ago
      Optimistically, the semantic web is going to happen. Just that instead of the original plan of website owners willingly making data machine-readable, LLMs will be the ones turning non-machine-readable data machine-readable (which can then be processed by user agents), even if the website owner prefers you looked at the ads instead.