Realistically, we’ve seen the dying of the open web.
It may not be dead for good but it’s very diseased.
With LLMs/AIs now polluting all sorts of things with rubbish (the fake bug report for cURL is my “favourite” story so far) that is hard to distinguish from genuine human content …
… I’m now thinking it’s dead. Like, we are going to start thinking about using processes of getting and sharing information that don’t just go over the internet.
Closed online environments with gated membership. In person processes where humanity is physically verified. Live conversation to verify actual human understanding. Static sources of information like books and manuals etc.
Not for everything, obviously. But for some things it seems the open internet may soon have a new cost that undermines its value proposition.
I’m personally not interested anymore in just using the open internet. I’m sniffing for some verification that something is worth reading or interacting with.
Realistically, we’ve seen the dying of the open web.
It may not be dead for good but it’s very diseased.
With LLMs/AIs now polluting all sorts of things with rubbish (the fake bug report for cURL is my “favourite” story so far) that is hard to distinguish from genuine human content …
… I’m now thinking it’s dead. Like, we are going to start thinking about using processes of getting and sharing information that don’t just go over the internet.
Closed online environments with gated membership. In person processes where humanity is physically verified. Live conversation to verify actual human understanding. Static sources of information like books and manuals etc.
Not for everything, obviously. But for some things it seems the open internet may soon have a new cost that undermines its value proposition.
I’m personally not interested anymore in just using the open internet. I’m sniffing for some verification that something is worth reading or interacting with.