The internet is slipping out of our reach
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Re: The internet is slipping out of our reach
#2AI is just one facet of the issue, and it only exacerbates the real problem. Algorithmification, enshitification, etc.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-in...
The old guards of Amazon and Google are gone - no one is there to nurture the product. The new business school jocks are there to juice it, juice it to the max, bro! Quarter to quarter, so that the vaunted SHAREHOLDER does not get all madzies.
Re: The internet is slipping out of our reach
#3similar but with a bit more meat - https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die...
Re: The internet is slipping out of our reach
#4AI is just one facet of the issue, and it only exacerbates the real problem. Algorithmification, enshitification, etc. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-in... The old guards of Amazon and Google are gone - no one is there to nurture the product . The new business school jocks are there to juice it, juice it to the max, bro! Quarter to quarter, so that the vaunted SHAREHOLDER does not get all m…
I think this
The old guards of Amazon and Google are gone - no one is there to nurture the product
really explains (perhaps obviously to many) why company culture changes over time, and that retaining engineering in leadership can be crucial to long-term success.
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#5The root cause is the failure of the ambient authority model of computer software. This is the hill I'm willing to die upon.
Requiring that the user of software absolutely trust it to do exactly what it says on the tin, is insane. All manner of ill follow from that in a most predictable manner. Enshittification is a consequence of people not being able to host their own shit on machines connected to the internet.
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#6Gods of he internets: tell me how I'm reading a text that declares it's was hidden. I don't even English.
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#7Poor title. This has nothing to do with the internet but everything to do with the culture a lot of people has adapted to. You don't have to use Google or Reddit. Or ChatGPT. It's a choice. It's up to the individual to make that choice by applying some thinking. So the title could be "Thinking is slipping out of our reach".
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#8AI is just one facet of the issue, and it only exacerbates the real problem. Algorithmification, enshitification, etc. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-in... The old guards of Amazon and Google are gone - no one is there to nurture the product . The new business school jocks are there to juice it, juice it to the max, bro! Quarter to quarter, so that the vaunted SHAREHOLDER does not get all m…
Maybe we ought to just be heading to Venus ("and still we stand tall"), as in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants ?
Re: The internet is slipping out of our reach
#9Another victim of LLM-'enhanced' search results is serendipity. Many times I've found random, fun and unrelated websites from mistyping a query.
Now the AI tries to guess what I meant and adjusts the search results, meaning such gems are lost.
Re: The internet is slipping out of our reach
#10Another victim of LLM-'enhanced' search results is serendipity. Many times I've found random, fun and unrelated websites from mistyping a query. Now the AI tries to guess what I meant and adjusts the search results, meaning such gems are lost.
To be fair, most people using search aren't looking for fun, random and unrelated content, they want results specifically relevant to the terms they're searching for even if they mistype their query.
The big problem with LLM and search is that the results themselves are often poisoned by factually incorrect LLM generated content being promoted from sites Google presents as sources of truth (see the recent "can you melt eggs?" debacle[0].)
[0]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/can-y...