AI Is Killing the Old Web, and the New Web Struggles to Be Born
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Slop, Creative Destruction, and What's Next for the Internet
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Also, the Internet is enshittified, Google has been SEO’d into ruin, and all of this is about to get worse with the explosion of AI manufactured garbage flooding the web. Human curation will become infinitely more valuable. That’s the insight. It’s huge, it’s exciting, and… it’s completely useless on its own. -Sari Azout
The existence of AI models means that openness is a bigger liability for user-generated content companies. The existence of a successful company in some category indicates demand for the content, so these are the easiest business models to drop into AI. "Quora, but there's no cold-start problem because our LLM can offer an instant answer" is one of... See more