The AI will become utter garbage, mark my words. It will destroy the internet though first before that happens. What will come after internet? Hard to say maybe we will exchange culture in VR? Probably at some point every kind of forum will be unreadable. Reddit already is
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
Submitted 7 months ago by remington@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/generative-ai-search-llmo/678154/
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emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
insufferableninja@lemdro.id 7 months ago
🎵 it’s the end of the web as we know it, and i feel fine 🎵
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 7 months ago
No discredit to R.E.M. but my world’s been ending for over a decade and I feel like dogshit constantly. Nobody told me the apocalypse would be heralded by the dumbest fucking cryptobros and AI prompters the world’s ever seen.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
halm@leminal.space 7 months ago
emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I wonder if the nft tech could be used to mark everything real with a proof of authenticity
sonori@beehaw.org 7 months ago
How could that help at all? Seeing as the blockchain would have no way of telling the difference between human and Ai text, and if you could find a way to automatically verify that in way way that was so efficient you could expect all the text uploaded to the internet you could just run that program locally and not be beholden to people paying a fee to post anything to the internet.
emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I think there needs to be a verification process to get on blockchain. Some kind of reputation system maybe
Kissaki@beehaw.org 7 months ago
If everyone can sign their content, who verifies them as “real”?
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
[deleted]ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Because it’s a centralized system owned by a sociopath billionaire gathering unchanging, personal details about swaths of the population using ye olde “for the greater good” adage.
emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
So again deleted comment accidentally omg. I very like this idea. It’s burdensome but every phone already has a scanner. I wonder about privacy though. Can it be anonymised like monero?
I imagine it is an opt in feature and then people can check to only show other verified humans in some kind of fediverse like network
Midnitte@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I guess blind people really aren’t human… (/s)
darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 7 months ago
AI can’t kill the World Wide Web, capitalism already did.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Again?
astraeus@programming.dev 7 months ago
Laughable that as the article begins to talk about publishers the Atlantic paywall shows up. Definitely not another reason why the web is dying.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
So freaking tone-deaf lol. I was just getting into the article and agreeing with them and then the paywall showed up. THATS THE PROBLEM YO
interolivary@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (ie. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)
astraeus@programming.dev 7 months ago
The paywalls restrict the flow of quality information, which happened before LLMs started scraping the web. If you don’t have money to spend on all of these news subscriptions you aren’t allowed to educate yourself. It’s class-based gatekeeping, plain and simple. They could tactfully include ads, but no one ever tactfully includes ads. They introduce pop-ups, fullscreen banners, interjections every 25 words, or the best is the articles that are just slide shows that take you through 30+ webpages.
monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I had the same laugh. So tone-deaf.
gnygnygny@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Is dead, already.