Submitted 20 hours ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/
AI is a tool (sorry)
This should be a bumper sticker. Also, thanks for this, bookmarking 404, wish I had the means to subscribe.
My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.
And this would be way better for places like 404, as they’d have to grab traffic individually and redirect users there.
My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.
We’re already heading there. But, it’s not going to happen by sitting on your hands and waiting for the billionaires to hand you these local models on a silver platter. You honestly believe the overlords that own your phone will give you shit for free? They want you hooked on subscriptions, that send all of your personal data and social security numbers to their huge databases, until the day you die. And then they’ll sell that data to your children and your grandchildren just to make even more profit.
You have to take it. You have to find it yourself. You found Lemmy. Good. So, go find other shit. Discover open source. Discover piracy. Discover Linux. Stay on top of it.
Google just killed uBlock Origin, but I’m using Firefox, because the writing was on the wall at least a year ago.
I mean, I run Nemotron and Qwen every day, you are preaching to the choir here :P
If you get the pay wall, the Rticle is kind enough to let you know about removepaywall.com
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I make content online. I host my own web pages, I create my own content.
The difference is I don’t do ads and I don’t ask for subscriptions. Like the way it used to be. The internet won’t die, the internet for profit will. I couldn’t care less if AI scrapes my site, it has zero bearing on what I am doing.
The bigger issue, and the article is touching on it “journalism will die”. That is significant. Because any moron can post nonsense on the internet and have it picked up (also why the internet won’t die). Anyone with money in a different business can pretend to be publishing “news”.
I think they are right that AI is not going to save media companies, I don’t know who is going to pay journalists, and there are few laws about owning a monopoly on media companies and requiring them to tell the truth.
patatas@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
When people ask me what I want for a gift (birthday, Xmas) my only response now is “a gift subscription to [independent journalist-run media outlet]”. I figure if I’m paying for a couple of the ones I like on a rotating basis, that I can go grab archived webpages of the rest.
But it only works if enough people take up that social contract.