[HN Gopher] What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like?
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       What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like?
        
       Author : fside
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-06-30 12:27 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | palata wrote:
       | > Paid services like Kogi will be
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       | Typo: it's called "Kagi"
        
       | xg15 wrote:
       | Tell me again how LLMs were going to make everything better?
        
       | dzonga wrote:
       | for now - we can identify AI slop.
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       | in the future - yeah interaction will be at a premium and that
       | includes all textual content - since you can't trust whether it
       | was generated by AI or not. which means books / content pre-AI
       | gonna more valuable.
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       | Later on things will need to be human curated.
        
       | Jubijub wrote:
       | It's a dark take, but I mostly agree with it. The ad model, with
       | all its flaws, is a flexible model, and it has funded the web for
       | a while.
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       | The part that will break is that a lot of sites will have 0
       | incentives to continue to publish, in the face of 0 revenue and 0
       | credit. That will degrade the quality/ relevance of LLMs. I also
       | think that "guaranteed produced by humans " will have value.
        
       | shmeeed wrote:
       | This is a chilling outlook, but it looks very plausible.
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       | The process has already started, the building blocks are in
       | place. See the recent rise in public complaints about intense
       | scraper activity. Zero-Click has become all but inescapable, and
       | is going to capture an ever-growing share of searches.
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       | Still, any paradigm shift also gives room for hope. There will be
       | pitfalls for Moloch, they might just trip over their own
       | ambitions. And maybe there will be opportunity for organic growth
       | to take root in the cracks of their foundations.
        
       | palata wrote:
       | In one sentence, this is what I have been saying about LLMs since
       | they got impressive:
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       | "I don't know what good it can make, but this thing clearly has
       | the potential to break the Internet".
        
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