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If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
24 ketanmaheshwari 49 8/22/2025, 10:06:59 PM cacm.acm.org ↗
Seems like the same logic to me. Isn't the Web where the information came from?
But here the mom is a robot taking produce for free. Not a good business for grocery stores.
there were a few months when a neighbor couldn't get the oil he needed to heat his home ...
another one fried a circuit and his solar cells were ... well ... powerless ... I mean they weren't, except they were, but you know what I mean.
I had a bicycle stolen once and a car got smashed on the rail tracks to my university ... it was horribly bloody and messy.
A friend broke his good arm once. His other arm was useless.
And we shouldn't touch the Gen part of your AI.
Sadly, most of the stuff most people want to verify is "breaking news" and "gossip".
Did the pope really wear a puffy white coat? Does it really matter?
My local library is great. But they don't have all books, like reference information about a particular manufacturer's product. And they're not open at 2am. And you have to go there.
Behold, this is the future. We've improved computers so much going to the library is the answer for getting information. Correction: getting correct information.
You want the ability to look at 4-5 sources, vet them, and draw your own conclusions.
We've reached a point where AI is not accountable for harms, while being capable of killing people through selective curation of information it provides.
Most people consume Reddit through, specifically, the iOS version of the app. The same is true of TikTok and Instagram. This is how most people get their news.
Google destroyed web discoverability and search. Platforms sucked up all of the value and monopolized distribution.
The indie web is pretty much dead for normal people. It's only us developer / hacker / enthusiasts that have websites and play around with CSS.
The news and content gets consumed by most people through apps and the walled-gardens.
a nothing burger article with no real ideas.
Fundamentally, it breaks the social and generational contracts needed for societal organization to operate. While these structures won't vanish overnight, the consequences are cascading failures that will produce dire outcomes the longer they are allowed to fester.
You may want to start with Leviathan, then move on to John Locke, Hobbes and Descartes. No post I make will ever substitute for a reading of those authors.
instead of explaining yourself, you offer a pretentious reading list? those authors wrote a LOT and had many different topics. you couldn't even point to any specific writing?
give me a fucking break. you just want to sound smart. this website is filled with the most arrogant people anywhere on the Internet. if you want to comment about an idea, and then you intend to recommend several semesters' worth of reading instead of just explaining your comment when someone asks nicely, maybe kindly shut the fuck up instead?
you had no reason to post this comment, or the first one, besides making yourself feel superior
Likewise, AI is biased, tries to be all things to all people, and is outright wrong in many cases. It is too easy to nudge in strange directions, and is NOT a nice companion. The lure of advertising is too big not to enshittify it.
However, in strict verticals, it can be helpful.
Since it is by structure non-social, it can’t be used to connect people.
It’s really a matter of choice, and people choose poorly.
“My Internet World” consists mainly of two aggregators, heavily moderated, sites that serve my interests directly, and communications with friends. The latter could be improved by “group forums” outside of the surveillance capitalism monster sites, but nobody seems to care, and should be part of operating systems, but Apple, Google and Microsoft, for example, will never agree on anything, so it’s left to third parties to crack a billion-device market. Fat chance.
As an example, I used to host Moodle on laptops and servers for docs, where people could comment, and it had built-in controls. Perhaps, some outside hosting? Small is beautiful.
People and information. They’ve been poisoned and probably always will as long as people use “big” sites.
Oh, and as for advertising. If I want information, I’ll just go get it. Anyone who pushes information on me is poisoning my cache. Out, damned slop.
Good. If there is one silver lining to generative AI, then it is that programmatic advertising will become less viable as a source of income.
If the internet were to overnight become a place where it is impossible to make money via advertising revenue, it could very well save the internet, if not the world.
Counter measures will need another LLM "AI" to filter out efforts to filter out ads from my prompts. However, when openai's adversary is their customer, my money is on me!
It would be really nice to get rid of one parasitic zero-sum "industry" without feeding all intellectual output into a slop machine which resells it without credit or compensation.
[0]: https://simone.org/advertising/
Marketing and Advertising is about communicating a product to someone that may be interested in purchasing it.
If Communications is jammed because AI slop has dominated the web, no marketing happens, no hiring happens, no purchases are made because no jobs. In short order (relatively speaking), you get deflationary collapse of all human organization.
Should that collapse, population levels will be forced to make a deep correction in ecological terms. The planet is in ecological overshoot. What happens when 2/3 of people can suddenly no longer feed themselves, and technology allows one person to destroy everyone on the planet. Quite bad.
Also, the money in surveillance capitalism is almost straight from the money-printer. It may be laundered a bit, but overall the reason old marketing/advertising failed is because it was outcompeted by money-printing, and when that fails (as it always does), you have a barren soil where nothing will grow. Corporate business today has a tendency to burn their house down with themselves in it to save a few pennies.
This is only what advertising is about for the advertisers.
For the other side of the coin, namely, the platforms that sell users to the advertisers, advertising is about capturing as much attention as possible in order to sell it. That means addiction, scams, sensationalism, lying, and preying on fear, greed, lust, and all the baser motives of a human being.
Lolol no, human organization would not collapse because web advertising went away.
Web advertising goes away because communications platforms reach the Shannon limit driven by AI generated slop, and deceit. People can no longer communicate with each other, this spawns chaotic hallucinations and delusions that grow into a dragon-king event. Businesses make decisions based on the hallucinatory perceptions that are not sound resulting in losses. Money-printing increases to try to cope with losses by extending debt nationalizing the economy, inflationary pressures cause rapid devaluation of the dollar which in turn puts companies responsible for food production out of business. This culminates in one single company remaining in the food production sector that serves as inputs for other smaller companies, and then they too fail due to chaotic instability and devaluation of the currency, with no further food production thereafter citing regulatory and safety issues confounded by corruption. All the while advertising to everyone that food will be available in the future, but never actually taking the steps to make it happen given the desperate situation that cannot be resolved.
Three days later, most people start getting desperate to feed their families. Rioting breaks out. Some start resorting to cannibalism, looting, and ivolence. The electric grid fails. Production of everything ceases, and the remaining people kill each other using guns/other tools, or detonate nuclear bombs ending it for everyone.
The relation between each step of this is a small domino that by itself wouldn't break a resilient system, it would only break in a predisposed centralized system, a system that has been optimized for chaos to create profit.
You've got the cause and effect reversed that seems based in fallacy. Are you one of those people that would say, "This can't ever happen", sound in that false belief but through your actions then try to make it happen?
Cascade failures lag with time. If you juggle balls up in the air, eventually they will all come down at the same time, where you won't be able to react. This is why these failures are so serious and existential, and shouldn't be ignored by rational people. Those that ignore reality end up dying through their own choices given sufficient time.
If society were as brittle as you describe we’d have collapsed under the first gust of wind.
Don't threaten ME with a good time!
But even more importantly, communities that created those wont form anymore.