AI is about to turn the internet into a total nightmare
www.businessinsider.com
AI is making the internet more annoying to use, from voice scams to spreading misinformation to bot proliferation making captchas harder.
  • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Best case: AI safes us from negative impact of social media, since it will be overrun by bots at some point - so there will be no point in using it.

  • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hot take

    The internet was already ruined. It’s no longer the same place it was in 2016 or 2010 or 2000. It’s become a corporate hellhole where you can’t get away from tracking, monitoring and other shady practices no matter what you do. Almost nothing is free and open and everything is designed to milk as much money out of the product.

    AI is just accelerating this. Makes me think of the “old net” in Cyberpunk2077. Infested with rouge AI that have turned it into a battleground.

    • Knusper@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lukewarm counter-take: That non-commercial internet is still out there.

      As long as there’s nerds, there’s going to be nerds building stuff for the fun of it. Building your Lemmys, your Fediverses, your Geminis etc…

      There is definitely more legislation now, dissuading some percentage of nerds, but we also have a lot more nerds…

      • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Even the non-commercial spaces are commercial. I’ve seen a bunch of thing disguised ads on here already. The fediverse is no different than the rest of the net. The big corps are still monitoring everything.

        Every “nerd” I meet now wants out asap. The only ones who don’t seem to be pushing blockchain or AI. The tech sphere I loved is well and truly gone. The people are so profit driven nothing else can matter.

        • Knusper@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Well, do try Gemini, if you want to see the anti-thesis of commercial viability. You’ll need a dedicated Gemini browser. You can try to search from gemini://geminispace.info/search , but some Gemini capsules, you’ll just have to discover.

          I do actually also feel like the Fediverse is a bit too popular now, after Ex-Twitter and Reddit committed seppuku. But I’m still hoping, if it bothers me too much, I can simply move to a more isolated instance where there’s only nerds again.