If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
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Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#2> While the ecosystem in which the Web thrived had one colossal flaw, namely, Surveillance Capitalism,b it had a stable business model. That business model is now being threatened by GenAI
Good. If there is one silver lining to generative AI, then it is that programmatic advertising will become less viable as a source of income.
If the internet were to overnight become a place where it is impossible to make money via advertising revenue, it could very well save the internet, if not the world.
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#3It already has, and it will destroy quite a lot more before all is said and done.
Fundamentally, it breaks the social and generational contracts needed for societal organization to operate. While these structures won't vanish overnight, the consequences are cascading failures that will produce dire outcomes the longer they are allowed to fester.
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#4It already has, and it will destroy quite a lot more before all is said and done. Fundamentally, it breaks the social and generational contracts needed for societal organization to operate. While these structures won't vanish overnight, the consequences are cascading failures that will produce dire outcomes the longer they are allowed to fester.
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Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#5It already has, and it will destroy quite a lot more before all is said and done. Fundamentally, it breaks the social and generational contracts needed for societal organization to operate. While these structures won't vanish overnight, the consequences are cascading failures that will produce dire outcomes the longer they are allowed to fester.
What contracts are those?
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#6Good news is AI needs the WWW but humans don’t need the WWW
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#7Likely. The ecosystem it trains on now wont continue to be created. There is kind of no point in writing those anymore, if ai swallows it and wont direct to you.
But even more importantly, communities that created those wont form anymore.
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#8> While the ecosystem in which the Web thrived had one colossal flaw, namely, Surveillance Capitalism,b it had a stable business model. That business model is now being threatened by GenAI Good. If there is one silver lining to generative AI, then it is that programmatic advertising will become less viable as a source of income. If the internet were to overnight become a place where it is impossible to make money via…
What happens when openai starts interjecting ads into chatgpt output?
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#9SEO already killed the www.
Re: If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
#10> While the ecosystem in which the Web thrived had one colossal flaw, namely, Surveillance Capitalism,b it had a stable business model. That business model is now being threatened by GenAI Good. If there is one silver lining to generative AI, then it is that programmatic advertising will become less viable as a source of income. If the internet were to overnight become a place where it is impossible to make money via…
Not good. Have you considered the second order effects of a breakdown of communications?
Marketing and Advertising is about communicating a product to someone that may be interested in purchasing it.
If Communications is jammed because AI slop has dominated the web, no marketing happens, no hiring happens, no purchases are made because no jobs. In short order (relatively speaking), you get deflationary collapse of all human organization.
Should that collapse, population levels will be forced to make a deep correction in ecological terms. The planet is in ecological overshoot. What happens when 2/3 of people can suddenly no longer feed themselves, and technology allows one person to destroy everyone on the planet. Quite bad.
Also, the money in surveillance capitalism is almost straight from the money-printer. It may be laundered a bit, but overall the reason old marketing/advertising failed is because it was outcompeted by money-printing, and when that fails (as it always does), you have a barren soil where nothing will grow. Corporate business today has a tendency to burn their house down with themselves in it to save a few pennies.