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I’m a bit scared of this theory, i think it will be true, ai will eat the internet, then they’ll paywall it. Innovation outside of rich coorps will end. No one
by secretsatan 9mo ago
I’m a bit scared of this theory, i think it will be true, ai will eat the internet, then they’ll paywall it.
Innovation outside of rich coorps will end. No one will visit forums, innovation will die in a vacuum, only the richest will have access to what the internet was, raw innovation will be mined through EULAs, people striving to make things will just have ideas stolen as a matter of course.
- therobots927 9mo agoThat’s why we need a parallel internet.
- pupppet 9mo agoA̶O̶L̶ Humans Online
- ageedizzle 9mo agoWhat safeguards would be in place to prevent this parallel internet from also, with time, becoming a dead internet?
- malfist 9mo agoWhen it becomes a dead parallel internet, we'll make a internet'' and go again
- Frotag 9mo agoSocial stigma against any monetary incentives. (I recognize the irony in saying this on HN.)
- asdff 9mo agoPlenty of crass jokes advertisers don’t want in line with their content is how 4chan avoided commercialization.
- secretsatan 9mo agoWhat would stop them from scraping it and infecting it?
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- hackable_sand 9mo agoIt's bimodal Like wearing a mask on one's head to ward tigers.
- femto 9mo agoThe "old" Internet is still there in parallel with the "new" Internet. It's just been swamped by the large volume of "new" stuff. In the 90s the Internet was small and before crawler based search engines you had to find things manually and maintain your own list of URLs to get back to things. Ignore the search engines, ignore all the large companies and you're left with the "Old Internet". It's inconvenient and it's hard work to find things, but that's how it was (and is).
- therobots927 9mo agoWell then in that case, maybe we need a “vetted internet”. Like the opposite of the dark web, this would only index vetted websites, scanned for AI slop, and with optional parental controls, equipped with customized filters that leverage LLMs to classify content into unwanted categories. It would require a monthly subscription fee to maintain but would be a nonprofit model.
- femto 9mo agoThat's the original "Yahoo Directory", which was a manually curated page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo#Founding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo#Founding The original Yahoo doesn't exist (outside archive.org), but I'm guessing would be a keen person or two out there maintaining a replacement. It would probably be disappointing, as manually curated lists work best when the curator's interests are similar to your own. What you want might be Kagi Search with the AI filtering on? I've never used Kagi, so I could be off with that suggestion.
- efreak 9mo agoThe original dmoz/open directory project/Yahoo directory database is being hosted (but not maintained; I don't think it's being updated) at odp.org, which also includes links to other directory projects at http://odp.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories http://odp.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories
- JKCalhoun 9mo agoInternot.