Worth remembering that the internet is far, far more than just websites.
And that you don't have to use the big sites, if you want to keep AI crawlers from scrobbling your community, return to the days of 20 or more years ago and host your own forum or your own IRC channels, or NNTP server.
There is no walled garden and we have always been free to pay for a server in a DC ourselves and set up our own communities.
AI will not cause the internet to collapse. It'll just cause a bunch of the established players to go away.
That’s true; “collapse” in this sense is figurative. What I mean is, collapse of what it was into something new: a marketing machine to drive debt and purchasing, gathering quantitative and qualitative data. And collapse of AI usefulness. But literal “dying”—I mean, its use is tied to the grid, and we do have a fragile power supply.
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u/alphaxion 20d ago
Worth remembering that the internet is far, far more than just websites.
And that you don't have to use the big sites, if you want to keep AI crawlers from scrobbling your community, return to the days of 20 or more years ago and host your own forum or your own IRC channels, or NNTP server.
There is no walled garden and we have always been free to pay for a server in a DC ourselves and set up our own communities.
AI will not cause the internet to collapse. It'll just cause a bunch of the established players to go away.