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AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Beep@lemmus.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbots-scraper-bots-chatgpt-website-offline-change-internet/

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The age of information misinformation

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    • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The age of information misinformation disinformation

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      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That is actually more accurate.

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyday we’re inching towards the cyperpunk timeline. Blackwall

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  • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A lot of focus is on how llms are severing connection between the user and the source of info but something I would say is equally as concerning if not more concerning is the fact that public services and websites that offer free public access to information are being obliterated by llm agents and chatbots scraping with absolutely no regard to the site. It’s not just little operations either. Meta takes an approach that I would consider malicious and a threat to anyone hosting anything on the open web as a whole.

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    • leds@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is intentional, they want their AI to be the only source of information.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There’s already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn’t seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      future of the internet is federated network hardware

      At the very least, that was its past. It was built as a nuke-resilient self-healing early mesh concept.

      Then it got commercialized and peers couldn’t trust each other so much, so we have the drunken-starfish setup we have now.

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      • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is there anything that prevents a tech bro buying the hardware and accessing the network to post with their LLM the way they do with the internet today?

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    • NoblityAbility@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are there any current examples of that?

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      • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        NYC Mesh!

        www.nycmesh.net

        There’s likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The title is a bit misleading. The issue here is data scrapers, period. They aren’t being deployed by AI, and they aren’t running using AI. It’s just the presumed destination of the data being scraped.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that makes sense.

      Also, the Internet is like a living thing, it changes constantly, that’s its nature. Essentially every day is the end of the Internet as we know it, it’s always something else the next day.

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      • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your definition is so vague that it is quite useless in any descriptive context.

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  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re gonna wanna sit down for this…

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  • it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

    This website uses cookies to give you the best experience.

    See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?

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  • suff@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We (soon) have a proofread internet for the paying class.

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  • m3t00@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    if all they can do is push ads and slop software then yeah, they suck.

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