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ballooney • yesterday at 4:23 PM • 7 replies • view on HN

This is such a grim thing to read.

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mmh0000 • yesterday at 5:21 PM

I disagree. I personally consider these my biggest problems with the Web:

  - Bias, specifically commercial bias
  - Webpage formatting: every website looks different, hides the information I want in different places. Sure, it "looks pretty", but I don't want pretty; I want info
  - Scams/SEO/etc...
The LLMs are very good at reading from multiple sources, parsing, and presenting only the data in a consistent format. There are many examples of this, but if you want a good one to try for yourself:

Google "How to make ham fried rice"; you'll get 10,000 articles, most pretty good recipes. But they're all different; most of them are just bait for ads. And most of them, the 10-line recipe is hidden between 50 useless paragraphs about how serving food is life's most important goal.

Now, ask an LLM to search for it, find the best combination, and list only the recipes. You get a perfect, 10-line recipe that doesn't waste your time.

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falcor84 • yesterday at 4:28 PM

Well agreed, but it's not new, the web has been actively made user hostile by every website owner and their "273 partners".

ako • yesterday at 5:49 PM

Maybe, but it's reality. Not too long ago the rule would be "if it doesn't show up in google, it doesn't exist". Today agents+LLMs are better browsers than Chrome/Safari/Firefox/... If a webpage does not show up in an LLM it may as well not exist.

grumbel • yesterday at 4:31 PM

How is that grim? It's the dream of the Semantic Web coming true, just by different means than planed.

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aprdm • yesterday at 4:31 PM

Why do you feel that ?

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doc_ick • yesterday at 4:26 PM

100%