The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

mumbisChungo

Already has.

senderista

> Maybe this article will be read by humans. Maybe it will be summarized by an AI into two polite lines for someone curious on the other side of the planet. Maybe it was generated by an AI in the first place.

paul7986

Actually i think AI will make the web the backbone of humanity once a system is in place that gets all humans paid for our daily content (conversations, pics, videos, songs, movies, etc). All of us create content daily via living. The web now is a system that all of humanity owns and its not controlled by one company or organization. It can be a place where every human publishes our daily content to our own websites for AI to pay us to access it and feed off of it. I see Trump saying he's going to be talking to AI companies about them providing Americans with stock. That's one way AI pays us and this other idea I mention above and wrote about on my Substack https://ryanspahn.substack.com/p/ai-to-pay-for-all-americans...

margalabargala

What the article's prompt wanted to warn of, has already happened. For a decade at least. Personal blogs aren't going to disappear, there's right now more of them than ever! And there will be more! But the preponderance of sheer cruft will reduce their percentage. Discoverability of the content you want has always been the problem, and it still will be.

reconnecting

> Not megabits. Not gigabits. Not fiber. ... > Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands. ... > Artists had websites. Musicians had websites. Game developers had websites. ... > People want answers. People want connection. People want tools. This is just impossible to read.

tonymet

none of these platforms exists without the people and the content they produce. I’m less worried about the platforms and more worried about the contributors , what they are contributing, and which ones are favored, and why.

plagiarist

It is already gone. Actual content has been flooded out by millions if not billions of affiliate ad listicles where, completely coincidentally, the top ten best $product are also the first ten $product on the Amazon search page.

VulgarExigency

The web as I knew it is already dead. It has been dead for years. I don't understand why the blog owner had the AI that wrote the article focus on technology like Flash vs HTML5, those had no bearing on what actually mattered, which were communities. What killed the web was the rise of social media and social media-like sites like Reddit. No one makes a website for their hobby or game/book/movie they're a fan of, and a forum and/or IRC channel for their site, anymore. They just post about it on Facebook or Twitter, or maybe on a subreddit for it, but the sense of community that used to be part of it is totally gone. You don't really get to know people like you used to on a forum. Niche Discord servers don't have this problem as much, but they suffer greatly in terms of discoverability. AI has made it even worse, because now you can't even be sure you're talking to a person, but in my opinion the centralization around social media was far more damaging.

raychis

The web from the 90s was so much more fun. I have a vivid memory of a website from some guy dedicated to Liverpool FC and his favourite dinosaurs, you would never get that kind of random fun any more.

johnea

What do you mean by "We" Kimosabe? For dipshits who think aggregating ad-based websites, and hate filled doom-loop algorithmic feeds, are "the web", this may be true. But the rest of us, who aren't part of this "we", will still be here...

smitty1e

> The next interface for many tasks will be conversational. Not necessarily one chatbot. More likely a layer of assistants across devices, apps, operating systems, browsers, cars, TVs, glasses, and whatever strange object Silicon Valley convinces us to wear on our faces next. There is also that famous legacy application: other people. The bad news about AI is that I am now the product. This will seem fine for a vast swath of the population. But watch the Luddism thrive.