For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
        • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4か月前

          Yup. I’ll admit, I didn’t foresee AI coming along and finding a way to make the quality of discourse even worse

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            4か月前

            God I feel so bad for people even just trying to learn stuff online now.

            10 to 20 years ago we had a lot less content, but when you did find a hit on your search, you could be much more confident it contained meaningful information. Rather than just the official documentation repackaged across 10 different “articles.”

            • ghostrider2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              4か月前

              Yeah, no kidding! Plus, in addition to shitty results, the likely inaccurate AI summary to further confuse you.

              • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
                2·
                4か月前

                God yeah, I’ll be like half way through an article before realising it’s just padding out some very surface level details about what I’m looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.