I was looking for information online and ended up on a tech stack I did not know.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

I was looking for information online and ended up on a tech stack I did not know. Out of curiosity, I opened the website.
The first thing I noticed was a series of clickable AI logos with the label "Summarize $PROJECT with AI".

To me, this is one of the clearest examples of the failure of a certain modern web. It means the page is so full of useless content, marketing language, hype, and buzzwords that even its authors realize it is impossible to extract meaningful information from it. In short, communicative bloatware.

This raises two questions.

First: if you realize the content is impossible to understand, why not rethink the entire site to make it actually communicative?

Second: if you realize an AI is needed to explain it, why not use it yourself once and publish a simplified page, instead of making every visitor click a button, generate essentially identical prompts, and create load, consumption, and environmental impact that are entirely avoidable?

This is not an argument against AI. It is an argument against the useless, costly, and harmful abuse of it, to the point of delegating even the decision of how to sit on a couch.

#AI #ModernWeb

[anparker@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano I think, it had been like this for a while. Sites for lots of more or less big projects, especially if they have paid version of a product, are marketing and buzzwords. That why I usually go straight to Documentation->How to get started for some simple overview and examples.

Looks like they just added those AI buttons without changing a site much.