this will be the end of the open internet. Expect login walls and subscriptions everywhere.
Rising interest rates are doing that, not AI.
The open Internet is based on a fundamental principal that people like you forget over and over.
Information should be free and plentiful, and making it free and plentiful benefits the common person. Data and scraping are essential parts of that common good.
The Internet will survive. The one you think exists - where you get to mooch and demand payment - never existed.
The internet where people make information free and for the benefits of the common good died a long time ago. The internet of today is siloed and controlled by huge corporations.
The small fediverse contingent will survive, but we’re a tiny and insignificant speck of maybe a couple million accounts in an internet of billions, and even the fediverse is full of reposts from other websites. Everything else will get worse.
The few companies with the hundreds of millions of fuck-you money to train an AI will gain more control while also locking down access to their content. Anything remotely like bots (i.e. Linux users, Firefox users) will probably get blocked harder than someone trying to access a Cloudflare website over Tor. Any website producing content that can be bought, will be bought, and locked behind DRM and/or paywalls.
The internet where people make information free and for the benefits of the common good died a long time ago.
It’s very much alive and kicking.
All of the “silos” literally depend on it continuing to happen and exist only by nature of the fact that they’re still open and easily browsed by individuals. If Reddit turns off access to the average person, Reddit eventually disappears.
Notably, you can still get to Twitter though nitter.
You can still get to Reddit through various open source front ends.
You can still get to YouTube through newpipe.
You may not remember this, but there have been many attempts to silo the Internet. It always falls as the company that does so stagnates and users eventually abandon ship.
The few companies with the hundreds of millions of fuck-you money to train an AI will gain more control while also locking down access to their content.
And you want to give them the monetary incentive and make this future literally inevitable by locking data out of the hands of anyone who can’t pay.
Rising interest rates are doing that, not AI.
The open Internet is based on a fundamental principal that people like you forget over and over.
Information should be free and plentiful, and making it free and plentiful benefits the common person. Data and scraping are essential parts of that common good.
The Internet will survive. The one you think exists - where you get to mooch and demand payment - never existed.
The internet where people make information free and for the benefits of the common good died a long time ago. The internet of today is siloed and controlled by huge corporations.
The small fediverse contingent will survive, but we’re a tiny and insignificant speck of maybe a couple million accounts in an internet of billions, and even the fediverse is full of reposts from other websites. Everything else will get worse.
The few companies with the hundreds of millions of fuck-you money to train an AI will gain more control while also locking down access to their content. Anything remotely like bots (i.e. Linux users, Firefox users) will probably get blocked harder than someone trying to access a Cloudflare website over Tor. Any website producing content that can be bought, will be bought, and locked behind DRM and/or paywalls.
It’s very much alive and kicking.
All of the “silos” literally depend on it continuing to happen and exist only by nature of the fact that they’re still open and easily browsed by individuals. If Reddit turns off access to the average person, Reddit eventually disappears.
Notably, you can still get to Twitter though nitter.
You can still get to Reddit through various open source front ends.
You can still get to YouTube through newpipe.
You may not remember this, but there have been many attempts to silo the Internet. It always falls as the company that does so stagnates and users eventually abandon ship.
And you want to give them the monetary incentive and make this future literally inevitable by locking data out of the hands of anyone who can’t pay.