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I think the called hail-mary shot I'm gonna state is: AI destroys the algorithmic internet
We have a lot of curators (influencers), and there's no automated way of filtering it, therefore, we collapse to non-algorithmic platforms that are driven primarily by interconnected influencer networks
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Hmmm
I think the called hail-mary shot I'm gonna state is: AI destroys the algorithmic internet
We have a lot of curators (influencers), and there's no automated way of filtering it, therefore, we collapse to non-algorithmic platforms that are driven primarily by interconnected influencer networks
Could I be wrong? Oh, sure, whatever, that's why it's fun to take called-shots this big
But it's the only way I can see out of this. Even after the AI bubble bursts, none of it goes away. So what still works? Social mesh networks, mostly. Mastodon or Bsky being current examples, but we'll see more.
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Could I be wrong? Oh, sure, whatever, that's why it's fun to take called-shots this big
But it's the only way I can see out of this. Even after the AI bubble bursts, none of it goes away. So what still works? Social mesh networks, mostly. Mastodon or Bsky being current examples, but we'll see more.
None of this means search engines or the internet goes away, it just means that you need humans in the loop to act like an immune system, to detect/evict the AI bullshit. So the result looks like a curated internet. If anyone remembers The Internet Yellow Pages? Web rings? Those were early examples.
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Could I be wrong? Oh, sure, whatever, that's why it's fun to take called-shots this big
But it's the only way I can see out of this. Even after the AI bubble bursts, none of it goes away. So what still works? Social mesh networks, mostly. Mastodon or Bsky being current examples, but we'll see more.
@glassbottommeg You gotta hope. The biggest AI content pushers already lack imagination so are happily eating their own lunch. But there is a lot of tasteless lunch to go around.
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None of this means search engines or the internet goes away, it just means that you need humans in the loop to act like an immune system, to detect/evict the AI bullshit. So the result looks like a curated internet. If anyone remembers The Internet Yellow Pages? Web rings? Those were early examples.
Now at this point you might think "oh no, that means circling of wagons! Closed platforms!" but actually weirdly no. Because the nanosecond a corporation controls one of those, their incentive becomes lock-in. Advertising. They want an algorithm, and the second you do that, AI shit will proliferate.
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Now at this point you might think "oh no, that means circling of wagons! Closed platforms!" but actually weirdly no. Because the nanosecond a corporation controls one of those, their incentive becomes lock-in. Advertising. They want an algorithm, and the second you do that, AI shit will proliferate.
@glassbottommeg back to the curated lists of internet sites from early 2000s 🤓
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Now at this point you might think "oh no, that means circling of wagons! Closed platforms!" but actually weirdly no. Because the nanosecond a corporation controls one of those, their incentive becomes lock-in. Advertising. They want an algorithm, and the second you do that, AI shit will proliferate.
Anyways, I say this because floundering around wondering Oh No What Will Be Left serves nobody and nothing. We know there are ways through this, we just need to pick one, and then start building to that, and hope it's close enough to merge into what comes next. So fuck it. That's what I'll build to.
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None of this means search engines or the internet goes away, it just means that you need humans in the loop to act like an immune system, to detect/evict the AI bullshit. So the result looks like a curated internet. If anyone remembers The Internet Yellow Pages? Web rings? Those were early examples.
@glassbottommeg I love this feeling/idea of a punk underground human resistance upholding what the internet was supposed to be
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Anyways, I say this because floundering around wondering Oh No What Will Be Left serves nobody and nothing. We know there are ways through this, we just need to pick one, and then start building to that, and hope it's close enough to merge into what comes next. So fuck it. That's what I'll build to.
@glassbottommeg
Yeah this seems like the ineivtable end-conclusion to me, too.Like...
1. The internet has too much utility to ever go away
2. People don't like AI shit
3. People still want to find shitOk, so human curation it is! We were already seeing that in some areas where algorithms couldn't do a good job matching people to the content they want (IE, Steam games)
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@glassbottommeg
Yeah this seems like the ineivtable end-conclusion to me, too.Like...
1. The internet has too much utility to ever go away
2. People don't like AI shit
3. People still want to find shitOk, so human curation it is! We were already seeing that in some areas where algorithms couldn't do a good job matching people to the content they want (IE, Steam games)
@Maxnichols yep yep, or all the anime influencers out there filtering for The Good Ones any given season
Having too much content to keep up with, so hitching your tastes to someone who gets you, had already become the dominant way of filtering, so we just lean harder into that.
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Hmmm
I think the called hail-mary shot I'm gonna state is: AI destroys the algorithmic internet
We have a lot of curators (influencers), and there's no automated way of filtering it, therefore, we collapse to non-algorithmic platforms that are driven primarily by interconnected influencer networks
@glassbottommeg @matthewskelton there was a Neal Stephenson novel where this was the case - everyone had their own feed, for the rich they had a personal assistant whose job was to curate it. The not-rich picked a public aggregator
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Anyways, I say this because floundering around wondering Oh No What Will Be Left serves nobody and nothing. We know there are ways through this, we just need to pick one, and then start building to that, and hope it's close enough to merge into what comes next. So fuck it. That's what I'll build to.
@glassbottommeg that's what I've been saying too. Change won't happen unless we make it happen
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Anyways, I say this because floundering around wondering Oh No What Will Be Left serves nobody and nothing. We know there are ways through this, we just need to pick one, and then start building to that, and hope it's close enough to merge into what comes next. So fuck it. That's what I'll build to.
@glassbottommeg I think this is clear thinking and actually you already see it happening. I don't know to what degree but e.g. webrings and RSS are a bit more of a thing now
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Could I be wrong? Oh, sure, whatever, that's why it's fun to take called-shots this big
But it's the only way I can see out of this. Even after the AI bubble bursts, none of it goes away. So what still works? Social mesh networks, mostly. Mastodon or Bsky being current examples, but we'll see more.
@glassbottommeg the people are starving for authenticity in all things
which makes me all the more pissed off that I wasn't well enough to start some stuff when I wanted to 😢
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@glassbottommeg I think this is clear thinking and actually you already see it happening. I don't know to what degree but e.g. webrings and RSS are a bit more of a thing now
@PsySal @glassbottommeg I don't remember webrings being nearly this popular in the early aughts
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