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The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

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Re: The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

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This is another one of those "duh" posts that many people seem to be slowly waking up to while the python of AI wraps around the body of the internet and squeezes the life out of it in preparation to shove the whole thing down its gaping maw. Still, everyone will go on about how great vibe coding is, and LLM models and sing "Nearer my God To Thee".

Re: The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

#5
There is Gemini (the real gemini) and gopher, so far there is a lot of interesting items. Some Links:

gemini://gem.sdf.org/

gemini://sdf.org/

gemini://gemi.dev/

gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/

gemini://cdg.thegonz.net/infrastructure/search/

gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/cia-world-factbook/

gemini://geminiprotocol.net/

gopher://sdf.org/1/

gopher://magical.fish/1/

gopher://gopherpedia.com/1/

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite

Re: The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

#7
There are two conflicting messages here: AI is ruining the Internet, but also now the relationship with the Internet is more "peaceful".

A more peaceful relationship with the internet does sound good, and most of us probably waste too much time with social media in some form (including here).

My "optimistic" take on this is that AI will ruin the Internet and cause us all to spend more time with people in real life. And maybe that's a good thing.

That's assuming that AI Internet slop is such a turn-off that most of us will decide to disengage from it, which is a big assumption. But I did say it was optimistic.

Re: The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

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It's not just the internet, it's everything.

Every document I read at work has been AI generated at some capacity. It's becoming so annoying that I have to use AI to create a summary.

I don't know if anyone agrees, but AI generated documents are so verbose and explain things in an overcomplicated way that makes me exhausted after reading. Sometimes I don't even understand what AI is trying to explain

Re: The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

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While I disagree with The Dark Forest hypothesis, the way AI and LLMs interact with the internet validate the theory in this specific instance. Individuals hosting their own slice of the internet have to deal with crawlers DDoSing them into oblivion and other islands retreat into privacy to avoid them entirely.

Re: The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

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post #7

There are two conflicting messages here: AI is ruining the Internet, but also now the relationship with the Internet is more "peaceful". A more peaceful relationship with the internet does sound good, and most of us probably waste too much time with social media in some form (including here). My "optimistic" take on this is that AI will ruin the Internet and cause us all to spend more time with people in real life. A…

I fear that slop will end up being hi quality ai videos that will hook the masses.
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