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Comment by dgellow

3 days ago

Not looking forward to a dehumanized internet where that’s mainstream… agents are tools to support humans, here you’re helping them impersonating humans. That feels pretty terrible to be honest

> The internet was made for humans exclusively, designed to keep machines out by default.

I don’t buy that at all. APIs exist to enable “machines” to interact with services

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janalsncm  3 days ago

In principle this tool allows the owner of a website to block this domain entirely. Although I’m not sure the incentives are really aligned.

  • sunir  3 days ago

    True, in May 2026. But this is only one version of this.

    In the future, it's likely the open Internet will be 99.99% robots. It's already > 50% robots. The government ID system a lot of countries are adopting to keep teenagers off of social media would also serve to both help control for non-human spam, and also control the network period. It's also possible a private system of human-verification certificates may come up to meet the demand like Apple ID with biometrics. Could also be the liveness tests KYC companies use may be more popular.

    Discussed previously here: https://meatballwiki.org/wiki/GovernmentBackedAuthentication

    • janalsncm  3 days ago

      I don’t think we can extrapolate from current trends like that (at least I hope not). Society is dynamic. People will adapt. If bots become a problem websites will take more and more strict measures against them.

      Which is a long way of saying, for any big enough problem created by a YC company, another YC company will emerge to fix it.

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teamsolid  3 days ago

Actually, the internet has space for both. The problem is machines "acting like humans", that destroys the human experience. [machine <-> machine] is fundamental to keep the internet alive (services).

Haakam21  3 days ago

I do think agents will become users in the same capacity as humans.

  • dgellow  3 days ago

    And that’s bad. We should really stop the insanity of making AI systems mimic human behaviors, we are destroying our networks of trusts by doing so