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The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

AI has killed cat videos and I find that upsetting.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Cut the heart right out of the Internet.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    We were just discussing it last night. Neither my partner nor I even click on them any more because there’s no fun in a fake cat video.

    I am curious to see if the general angst and anger level of everyone starts going up due to lack of cat video balm between terrible headlines and current events discussions.

    Is AI interference in and destruction of cat videos the catalyst to revolution?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    I know it's silly, but I think the 24/7 catharsis and propaganda machine that everyone carries around with them all the time is probably a big part of why shit is going the way it is and anything that makes people put it down is probably ultimately a good thing.

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    • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    A good essay, but I find it ironic that the author used "finding a recipe" as an example of the old web working well when recipe blogs are frequently the top example cited when someone is talking about SEO slop in the pre-AI web.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I guess sort of.

    I always saw them as cited as ad ridden and the complexity of recipe copyright (you can copyright a story but not a recipe).

    But I guess there's a convergence in that the Google ad ecosystem relied on SEO nonsense and the quality varied pretty widely so some sites where just aggregated bad recipes optimised to get ad views.

    There where enough real sites and the bad ones where easy enough to sniff out that it seemed a reasonable compromise at the time.

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