AI is killing the old web

The old web was killed by the corporate web at least ten years so. The corporate web has created this absolute dumpster fire dystopia of brainless bumblegum listicles, outrage bait attention economy, and frightening total surveillance secretly destroying people&#x27;s rights worldwide.<p>I was skeptical of this new wave of AI and still am but the open source side has been absolutely stunning. llama.cpp, whisper.cpp. HuggingFace and all the insane models. The community documenting and converting and explaining models.<p>Let this wave of LLM generated trash choke the gills of content marketing once and for all.<p>If I want mindless content, I&#x27;ll ask my laptop now, and I won&#x27;t ask your poor, pitiful click-farmer intern.<p>The corporate web might be good for buying things from companies, but it is an absolute cancer for knowledge and culture.

Great. Can&#x27;t happen fast enough. We&#x27;ve been coping with human-generated garbage for a long time, now AI will generate garbage at such a scale that the problems we&#x27;ve been coping with will be solved, because otherwise we&#x27;ll all drown.<p>This quote stuck out to me especially<p>&quot;There are a bunch of words, but no real value in what’s written,&quot;<p>That has been my main problem with so many top search results, business insider being the most recognizable culprits IMO, for years.

Plenty would argue it&#x27;s been dead for awhile, since even before AI. [1] I refuse to concede though, it&#x27;s as dead as you let it be. In both the places you passively consume from, and actively participate in. [2]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.agoraroad.com&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;dead-internet-theory-most-of-the-internet-is-fake.3011&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.agoraroad.com&#x2F;index.php?threads&#x2F;dead-internet-...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;32bit.cafe&#x2F;mission&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;32bit.cafe&#x2F;mission&#x2F;</a>

Web being killed by LLM generated spam, what an irony.<p>Next all LLM&#x27;s will need to find other training data and other approaches, as reddit, wikipedia and stackoverflow will all be dead.

I stopped reading in the first paragraph.<p>&gt; Redditors are staging blackouts.<p>The implication that the Reddit blackouts are related to recent AI advances is ridiculous. The embedded link also makes no mention of AI.<p>I dislike this kind of disingenuous clickbait. It&#x27;s not worth my time to keep reading.<p>In a way I should thank them for the early red flag. This way I don&#x27;t need to waste my time on the whole article.

The old web is already dead, it was killed by Google, Twitter, and Reddit. AI might well kill Web2.0, and good riddance.

Is my new project [0] also part of the problem? I&#x27;m still unsure myself because LLMs also allow us to process data in unprecedented ways. In my specific case, I auto generate stories to highlight different view points based on what people are saying about hot controversial topics on social media.<p>What&#x27;s your opinion?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zeitgaist.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zeitgaist.social</a>

People seem to be getting hung up on the bad article title. It&#x27;s a genuinely good read when you set the semantics of what the old web is aside.

I have an opinion than we need to pay some microtransactions to post our comments (web3?). Than all chatgpt-generated text will become a regular text from humans.