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> Days of just getting data off the web are coming to an end All thanks to great ideas like downloading the whole internet and feeding it into slop-producing machines fueling global warming in an attempt to make said internet obsolete and prop up an industry bubble. The future of the internet is, at best, bleak. Forget about openness. Paywalls, authwalls, captchas and verification cans are here to stay.
The Internet was turned into a slop warehouse well before LLMs became a thing - in fact, a big part of why ChatGPT et al. has so extreme adoption worldwide is because they let people accomplish many tasks without having to inflict on yourself the shitfest that's the modern web. Personally, when it became available, o3 model in ChatGPT cut my use of web search by more than half, and it wasn't because Google became bad…
I suppose that's thanks to Google and their search algos favoring ad-ridden SEO spam. LLMs are indeed more appealing and convenient. But I fear that legitimate websites (ad-supported or otherwise) that actually provide useful information will be on the decline. Let's just hope then that updated information will find its way into LLMs when such websites are gone.
