Gregory's Server@anildash @noahshachtman I sure hope you're right. My dismay about the direction genAI has taken is that it can create an internet that perpetually chases its own tail. But from your lips to Fate's ears...
I miss the BBS days of people role-playing as oysters.
@edk @anildash @noahshachtman In a sense, I can't help but think that the promise of GenAI is *the opposite* of that of the old Web. The dotcom dream was one of perfectly connecting people to each other - in retrospect, that dream was easy to corrupt; install yourself as a middleman between all those connected people, and you have a surveillance empire.
The GenAI dream comes pre-corrupted: It's the dream of perfectly alienating people from each other.