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You posted all that stuff on ad-driven websites, you already handed it to them to turn into a product.
This is colonialism.
This happened because we let “business” morons and product managers take over. This is what they do. They arrive with their gigantic Dening-Kruger syndrom and fuck everything up. Like we needed any of these parasites to build the Internet.
Save a computer, eat a marketer.
Honestly, SEO broke things first. The fact that the mountains of crap became impossible to sift through is what opened the door for LLMs to grab market share in the first place.
Really, as soon as Google became an ad company, the writing was on the wall.
SEO became a thing when business started making its way onto the web. There was no profit motive when the web was an academic platform, corporate presence online ended that. SEO was a symptom to that arrival.
Even without SEO, the public would’ve jumped on LLMs just the same
Maybe, but it is fair to say, everything that makes it easier to find what you want… makes the internet more usable. In areas where finding what you want wasn’t terrible, when they impliment AI, most people hate it.
This keeps getting posted, but it’s still wrong.
The library is still there, the admission is still free. The card catalogue isn’t as useful for finding the contents anymore. But, as long as you can find the tutorials, answers, etc. are still available, still free to access.
The AIs trained on the data, but they didn’t delete it when they were done training.
Except that rare book thingy, where they’re debinding, scanning and trashing them.
Or the fact that a ton of indie forums had to close or go private because of the excessive scraping.
That’s awful, but it isn’t what this post is about.
It’s actually worse.
There’s a library, been there for years. Across the street someone opened a book rental service, and people are flocking to the paid service for access to what they were just getting for free. Not only that but the paid service is less accurate and you still have to go to the library from time to time to check what the service is selling.
Somehow we need to stretch this metaphor to account for the fact that the book rental service can only work by sending millions of robots into all the free libraries every day, taxing the resources of the free library with all the traffic.
And the resources in the paid book store are allowed to lie and manipulate with barely any warning (maybe 0.0001pt font underneath the store sign), while the store tells you everything is trustworthy and absolutely reliable.
its not even selling access to the library tho, its someone standing in front of the library retelling, in their own words, what is in the books and also including things that aren’t in any books or media but sounds like they might be.
It’s hilarious to me that no one here so far realizes the copy of the post itself was written by AI.
“the copy of the post itself” wtf are you talking about? What copy?
The worst is that a significant proportion of the answers or information you get from them are wrong.
I mean, the library is still there. You don’t have to use those products (yet at least…)
A lot of knowledge is lost. The forums are shutting down, because people moved to Reddit - or discord. Then people deleted their Reddit posts, and discord isn’t public.
That was happening long before LLMs
Yeah, you also don’t have to drive a car if you go cross country,but it’s much faster if you do. Just make sure you’re well prepared, well rested and you keep your eyes on the road.
Silver lining: we have always and will always exist, they will only exist intermittently. We have always, and will always out number them.
Optimistic: glacial progress is still progress.
Pessimistic: Why bother planting a tree who’s shade you will never enjoy.
The only way we can truly fail is to adopt their mercenary “what’s in it for me” way of thinking.
Far more than mildly infuriating
Mildly catastrophic.
Never give things for free or openly, scavengers will take it all and then sell it back to you. The only community allowed is the business community.
Never give things for free or openly
This is the stupidest advice I have read in years. Use copyleft license and don’t be a cretin.
That all costs resources to monitor and defend and often the value is gone before any legal process catches up, if there are even laws already in place. Corporate thieves stealing from the commons and destroy it in the process is killing every community that succeeds. Stop feeding the monster.
So you play the corporate game because you don’t like the corporate game. You are running in circle and going absolutely nowhere. Pause and think.
I couldn’t be moving in a straighter line. Stop providing companies with value they can steal and monopolize.
