So the solution to AI slop and spam is end of anonymity and total state control of the internet? Talk about the cure being worse than the disease.
The issues with todays internet stem specifically from the centralisation of power in the hands of Google, Apple and the social networks.
Bad search results? Blame Google's monopoly incentivising them intentionally making their results worse.
Difficulty promoting or finding events? Blame Facebooks real revenue model - preventing one to many communications by default and charging for exceptions.
AI overrun with slop? Blame OpenAI and Facebook, both of whom are actively promoting and profiting from the creation of slop.
Automated traffic slowing down sites? It's often the AI companies indexing and reindexing hundreds of times.
Spam? Not a huge issue for anyone that I'm aware of.
The closed internet platforms are the problem. Forcing them to relinquish control over handsets, data and our interpersonal connections is the solution. It will be legislative, or it will be torches to the data centres, likely both. But it is coming.
I completely disagree.
> The issues with todays internet stem specifically from the centralisation of power in the hands of Google and the social networks.
> Bad search results? Blame Google's monopoly incentivising them intentionally making their results worse.
> Difficulty promoting or finding events? Blame Facebooks real revenue model - preventing one to many communications by default and charging for exceptions.
You're misdiagnosing what happened here. These aren't diseases. These are symptoms that the more open internet, that we had in the early 2000s, completely failed at scale. The disease was the predictable failure of an open system to self-moderate, the symptoms the centralization that followed. You're mistaking effect for cause.
People started using Google, because it was the only tool good enough at digging through manure. Facebook started charging for mass communication, because otherwise, everyone has an excuse why they need to use it. Cloudflare became popular, because the internet didn't care when 40% of traffic was bots, half of them malicious, before AI was even on the scene. And so on.
The open system failed, and was becoming unusable. Big Tech arrived offering proprietary solutions as CPR. They didn't cause the death.