alt Hacker NewsYes. When my kids wonder why I don't hate AI the way they do I tell them it's because I hate Google even more.
To be more precise, I hate the SEO shithole the internet has become, that Google serves up, that Google facilitated, indirectly created.
(I really don't have any tears to shed if there is a death of the Corporate Internet™.)
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dualvariable • today at 2:18 AM
They're probably going to figure out how to aggressively monetize and enshittify LLMs at some point.
We're likely at the "golden age" of LLM-assisted web searching and summarization.
Hopefully open models keep it cracked open, but expecting enshittification is always the safe bet these days.
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no-name-here • today at 2:52 AM
Is there some search engine that you think could have become popular and not ended up with SEO optimization?
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AI seems to be on the same trajectory? Search was very useful in the start also, until it became entrenched. Then search placement became a target, and they are just focusing on extracting rents. All way paying the content providers zero or near-zero. And with years of that dynamic, we end up where we are now. It was the same with "social media". The same will happen with AI. AI is a power for more enshittification - being currently less shit than Google is (mosy likely) temporary.