Post ASUZsPWHqdSEWJZ2p6 by collette@mastodon.ie
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 (DIR) Post #ASUZsOaVJTEXd6Wtl2 by mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
       2023-02-09T04:06:06Z
       
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       The Golden Age of the Internet is ending, and in the future we will turn again to books as references.We've all noticed as Internet search has become less useful over the last ten years. There are too many websites created for SEO advertising purposes, so it's hard to find something useful. Now our AI systems are able to flood the Internet with such websites, full of plausible answers, but who knows if they're true?  The AI is just chaining tokens together, it doesn't understand their meaning.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASUZsP5hRUBfBr7oNk by mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
       2023-02-09T04:13:27Z
       
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       Now one can ask, "Is it healthy for rabbits to eat lettuce?"  After scrolling past the ads, there's the answer, written by someone who has copied the answer from another person, who actually knows something about rabbits.  In a few years, 90% of such websites will be written by AI that doesn't really know about rabbits or lettuce, or care about having a correct answer, so long as it sells ads.In that world, if you want a real answer to the question, you'll buy a book about raising rabbits.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASUZsPWHqdSEWJZ2p6 by collette@mastodon.ie
       2023-02-09T04:15:38Z
       
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       @mpjgregoire  the book will likely be written by AI
       
 (DIR) Post #ASUZsQ0m1HqC2rpOLI by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-02-09T04:44:53Z
       
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       @collette @mpjgregoire That's the next problem! We may have to limit ourselves to "books printed before 2010".
       
 (DIR) Post #ASUrxS4rZ3Al4kI4I4 by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
       2023-02-09T08:07:30.679488Z
       
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       @mpjgregoire Not sure how much of this is SEO and how much of it is search companies no longer focused on finding relevant information because they're so afraid people will find information that is contrary to the officially approved narrative.That is to say: It's not the internet that is dying, its Google.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASWr8IOGD4b0ZwtFa4 by Resident_Evil@stereophonic.space
       2023-02-10T07:07:43.540697Z
       
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       @mpjgregoire there is a good side of this coin: people would prefer thematic forums to SEO-pages. But there is still a problem: those forums are probably going to be subreddits.The Internet nowadays is a wasteland soon powered by language models, and people are concentrated around several centralized platforms.