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Well, just as the "internet" supplanted newspapers, magazines (gosh those classic gaming mags), and broadcast television for many people, and how the newspaper
by Razengan 2mo ago
Well, just as the "internet" supplanted newspapers, magazines (gosh those classic gaming mags), and broadcast television for many people,
and how the newspapers replaced the town criers before them,
why shouldn't the "internet" be supplanted by a more accessible medium?
Why should I have to suffer through Fandom raping me with screen-obscuring banners and "PLEASE ALLOW ADS" just to make some sense of fucking Warhammer 40K lore (written by unpaid volunteers anyway)? instead of just asking ChatGPT what the fuck Globriznaroks is/are.
Why should we support shady companies by sitting through their ads on YouTube videos for minute topics instead of just asking AI for the shit I want to know about?
Why should we submit to the whims of 3 mods on a subreddit deciding what thousands should get to see (fuck /r/AskScience) and then getting low-effort answers or outright trolling anyway? instead of just asking AI?
Bury me, I am ready.
- Tarq0n 2mo agoWhere is the information going to come from though? LLMs aren't primary sources, they consume and regurgitate.
- Razengan 2mo agoI guess/hope that's where Yann LeCun and their proposed "world models" etc are going to fill in :)
- pjc50 2mo agoThis is better for you as an individual, but worse for society as a whole. As you've noticed, monetization is the weak spot. AI will not escape being ruined by monetization, but it might be harder to notice when it arrives.
- Razengan 2mo agoCorrect, the enshittification of AI would fuck us up more widely and deeply than the enshittification of the internet but..that's not a problem inherent to the technology or medium itself. That's a separate problem that's the responsibility of laws and society to solve
- inigyou 2mo agoPopular wikis such as Minecraft and Runescape have successfully migrated away from Fandom. Note that Fandom leaves behind the outdated old wiki and refuses to allow deletion because it drives their revenue. After a few years, the Fandom wiki is severely out of date and loses traffic. What we actually need is a browser that filters out bullshit.
- NoGravitas 2mo agoI really wish Memory Alpha would migrate off of Fandom.
- inigyou 2mo agoBe the change you want to see - make a mirror.
- YurgenJurgensen 2mo agoFandom and Reddit are not the old Internet, they’re ad-driven middlemen that create nothing themselves. Self-hosted or at least self-maintained sites were the old Internet. After that point, the rot had already set in then, it just took until LLMs for it to metastasise.
- Razengan 2mo ago> Fandom and Reddit are not the old Internet What exactly WAS the "old" internet anyway? 100 half-baked sites hosted on Geocities, Yahoo, about pointless stuff, covered with gif-vomit that looked like epilepsy simulators? Serious question: What do the rose-tinted glass wearers actually think was of objective substance on the old internet that's nowhere to be found now? You can find random pointless stuff now too, just that except Geocities/Yahoo it's Intsagram/TikTok/Twitter etc. If you mean self-hosted websites, they're still here. If you loved all the Flash toons on Newgrounds etc there's unironically a lot more shorts and animations on YouTube now, if you but search for them (I suggest Weebl, David Firth, Sechi, to start with, and let the algorithm soak up the weirdness)