Gregory's ServerWith “AI” generated websites and content that are SEO optimised making it next to impossible to find real answers to even the simplest questions, it dawns on me that my weird decision to get a printed version of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica was an inspired one. We are losing access to reliable knowledge due to “AI” and centralised, commercial services defining the web. We, the elders of the internet, look at this with fear and disgust.
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Will Wikipedia be able to withstand the already ongoing flood of “AI” generated content? “On the internet no one knows you are a dog” is an old joke/meme. But when you think about it by replacing dogs with “AI”, where “AI” means a small oligopoly of commercial entities with an agenda that can afford to burn tons of fossil fuel and water to run their datacenters for the training phase of models — things start to look really frightening. What we need is more H2H (Human to Human) communications. @jwildeboer Was recently thinking about this. User-generated-content was poor quality for the most part already. AI-generated even crappier. Who reads that stuff? Humans already turning away, so ultimately it’s just AIs writing articles that are used to train other AIs to write articles etc etc etc. Real human interaction/created will be a USP soon. So how can we create a system that connects real people around the world with other real people in a way that garantuees exactly that? I honestly don’t know. But I’ve been thinking about that since 15+ years. And no matter what ideas I have, all of them return to the simplest question with a most complicated answer that goes beyond technology. How can I prove to you that I am a real person? And how can I be sure that you are a real person? It’s not solved. But it has a name ;) TCP/ID. It’s a theoretical construct ATM. But its implications can already be explored. Imagine a system, a black box, that reliably tells you who I am and that tells me who you are. Imagine that oracle exists. How would you build solutions on top of that? That’s what we can already do and #activitypub is one example of that way of thinking, IMHO. Though @evan might disagree ;) @jwildeboer We have reached a crisis point in history where there is a real danger that all information in the world is irretrievably poisoned, and I fear there is no cure @jwildeboer Not sure. Also, as usual, it might not be the 'secret Caballé' of might and money, but the average but average people who want to shine. The very topic is quite visible on some Stackexchange sites.   @Ertain I just need to share all of that. So it wo t be lost and may inspire others to go where I can’t. Creating solutions that move us forward. Sharing is caring :) |
@jwildeboer Kagi are getting some fire for their partnership with Brave atm, which may not be entirely unjustified, but they definitely have improved on my web search experience.