Comment by secretsatan
17 hours ago
I’m a bit scared of this theory, i think it will be true, ai will eat the internet, then they’ll paywall it.
Innovation outside of rich coorps will end. No one will visit forums, innovation will die in a vacuum, only the richest will have access to what the internet was, raw innovation will be mined through EULAs, people striving to make things will just have ideas stolen as a matter of course.
That’s why we need a parallel internet.
The "old" Internet is still there in parallel with the "new" Internet. It's just been swamped by the large volume of "new" stuff. In the 90s the Internet was small and before crawler based search engines you had to find things manually and maintain your own list of URLs to get back to things.
Ignore the search engines, ignore all the large companies and you're left with the "Old Internet". It's inconvenient and it's hard work to find things, but that's how it was (and is).
Well then in that case, maybe we need a “vetted internet”. Like the opposite of the dark web, this would only index vetted websites, scanned for AI slop, and with optional parental controls, equipped with customized filters that leverage LLMs to classify content into unwanted categories. It would require a monthly subscription fee to maintain but would be a nonprofit model.
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What safeguards would be in place to prevent this parallel internet from also, with time, becoming a dead internet?
Social stigma against any monetary incentives. (I recognize the irony in saying this on HN.)
When it becomes a dead parallel internet, we'll make a internet'' and go again
Plenty of crass jokes advertisers don’t want in line with their content is how 4chan avoided commercialization.
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What would stop them from scraping it and infecting it?
It's bimodal
Like wearing a mask on one's head to ward tigers.