AI threatens the open web
Jeremy Keith a.k.a. Adaction in Journal—Denial:
The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.
If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.
If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.
Oof. Absolutely brutal from Jeremy, and there's no denying there's truth here.
The threat the LLM-companies are posing is nothing less than existential for the open web. It's not hard to envision a near-future where everything worth reading/watching/listening to is hidden behind a login wall and access rules are enforced per credential.
These companies have broken the social contract of the open web, and we're all likely to be worse off as a result.