Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web?
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 6 days agoI’m not saying that it’s not a lot worse now, I do agree that it is. But things were already headed this way long before ChatGPT. SEO had already gone a long way in killing the web, I think AI will just be the death blow.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 5 days ago
Fair enough. SEO was definitely one of the many large steps Google has taken to slowly crippling the open web, but I never truly expected it to get this bad. At least with SEO, there was still some incentive left to create quality sites, and it didn't necessarily kill monetizability for sites.
This feels like an exponentially larger threat, and I truly hope I'm proven wrong about its potential effects, because if it does come true, we'll be in a much worse situation than we already are now.