Comment by endofreach
19 days ago
> Everyone should start doing this. Once the AI companies engorge themselves on enough garbage and start to see a negative impact to their own products, they'll stop running up your traffic bills
Or just wait for after the AI flood has peaked & most easily scrapable content has been AI generated (or at least modified).
We should seriously start discussing the future of the public web & how to not leave it to big tech before it's too late. It's a small part of something i am working on, but not central. So i haven't spend enough time to have great answers. If anyone reading this seriously cares, i am waiting desperately to exchange thoughts & approaches on this.
Very tangential but you should check out the old game “Hacker BS Replay”.
It’s basically about how in 2012, with the original internet overrun by spam, porn and malware, all the large corporations and governments got together and created a new, tightly-controlled clean internet. Basically how modern Apple & Disneyland would envision the internet. On this internet you cannot choose your software, host your own homepage or have your own e-mail server. Everyone is linked to a government ID.
We’re not that far off:
- SaaS
- Gmail blocking self-hosted mailservers
- hosting your own site becoming increasingly cumbersome, and before that MySpace and then Meta gobbled up the idea of a home page a la GeoCities.
- Secure Boot (if Microsoft locked it down and Apple locked theirs, we would have been screwed before ARM).
- Government ID-controlled access is already commonplace in Korea and China, where for example gaming is limited per day.
In the Hacker game, as a response to the new corporate internet, hackers started using the infrastructure of the old internet (“old copper lines”) and set something up called the SwitchNet, with bridges to the new internet.