AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.
“starting”? The net was ruined when yahoo directory failed and Google with their stupid algorithm and SEO and AdSense and monetisation came along
Google had to happen, manually updating a registry of all site was unsustainable with the growth of the internet.
And the concept of SEO is actually older than the internet, “AAA Plumbing” from yellow pages was also optimized for the algorithm of the the telephone registry, which was simply alphabetical order. Just different algorithm and different scale.
Ppphhht.
The internet ended the day AOL threw open its doors and allowed their users out of the walled garden.
I know, I was there.
Me too!
(if you know, you know)
I remember there used to be Octobers.
The Eternal September.
As if there was any joy poking around for exactly the right sub-sub-sub category of a thing that by all rights should’ve been in seven different categories. Directories were a failed paradigm, for websites. Tags were the right idea - and they would’ve worked out damn near the same way as Google did, SEO spam and all.