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AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it
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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Toes@ani.social 8 hours ago
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.
leds@feddit.dk 10 hours ago
Is intentional, they want their AI to be the only source of information.
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.
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.
Telorand@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol
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?
NoblityAbility@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are there any current examples of that?
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 day ago
NYC Mesh!
There’s likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.
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.
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.
Rothe@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Your definition is so vague that it is quite useless in any descriptive context.
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You’re gonna wanna sit down for this…
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 1 day ago
openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.
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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?
suff@piefed.social 1 day ago
We (soon) have a proofread internet for the paying class.
m3t00@piefed.world 1 day ago
if all they can do is push ads and slop software then yeah, they suck.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 day ago
The age of
informationmisinformationToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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informationmisinformationdisinformationEndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 day ago
That is actually more accurate.