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The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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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...

Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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> 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.

Yeah I thought the same. The short sentences, like "The Web may become like IRC, FTP, Gopher, or BBSs. Not dead. Just smaller.", kind of gave that impression.

Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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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.

Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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post #4

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…

The US President has no legal means to give every American stock - and even if he did, then what? What good is my 1 share of OpenAI going to do me?

Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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> Not megabits. Not gigabits. Not fiber.

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> Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands.

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> Artists had websites. Musicians had websites. Game developers had websites.

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> People want answers. People want connection. People want tools.

This is just impossible to read.

Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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post #4

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…

That is a very... optimistic interpretation of what Trump is describing in your link.

Re: The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

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post #4

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…

> once a system is in place that gets all humans paid for our daily content (conversations, pics, videos, songs, movies, etc).

That is never going to happen, lol. That's what Youtube was supposed to be, and the trend is to pay content creators less and less, while keeping them creating the same amount of content.

> 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.

Social media will still exist. People will want to share content with each other, and it has to live somewhere. Sure, a lot of the interactions with LLM's will go back into the training data, that's already happening. But people aren't going to stop publishing content - because what happens then when there's no more training data out there?

You can't train an AI model without updated repositories of information. There is a bit of a question on whether an AI agent should be the interface for those repositories. Today, that's a very expensive proposition, and probably a silly direction to go (at some point, cheaper ways of doing things are going to win out for some use cases).

> I see Trump saying he's going to be talking to AI companies about them providing Americans with stock.

And this is proof positive why it's a bad idea that will never gain traction.

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