FaceDeer

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Those business are ad aggregation companies by default for the most part, and they aren't gonna to survive without clickthroughs

Yes, this is it exactly. The web pages that depend on ad revenue are the ones in trouble here. They're being undercut by pages that give people the information they want without going through all that stuff.

You're confidently predicting that the AI summarizers are going to fail somehow, and then everything will just magically go back to the way they were. I suppose that's a reassuring thing to believe. Why should I believe it, though? The AI genie is out of the bottle. I can run one locally on my computer if I want. All the existing online summarizers could go bankrupt tomorrow and I'll still be able to get an AI to distill the information I want from the morass of ads and engagement-harvesting click farms.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

All of those things remain true until one day they don't. Do you really think that the United States and its position on top of the world is eternal?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 20 hours ago

Trump was first elected in 2016, which is almost a decade ago now.

The voters that elected Trump will still be around after Trump's heart explodes from hamberder overload.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Did you read the article? The part of the web that is having problems with their business model are the sites that are not using AI. They're sites like news pages, the "sources" for information on the web. The ones that are eating their lunch are the ones that are using AI. They're the search engines and similar sites that people go to looking for information. Since AI is able to gather the information from those sources and present it to the user without the user having to actually visit that site, that undermines their existing business model.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

I suspect it's more because of Elon Musk hate.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is also possible for someone who has done something bad to be the victim of something else that is bad.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 54 points 1 day ago (10 children)

It's possible for both of those people to have done something bad.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Or, perhaps a lot of people just didn't think it was a very good show.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Well, direct your ire at the EU for that, I suppose. I'm just pointing out that calling for massive retribution against Meta isn't warranted here.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

the social media giant will not sign the European Union’s voluntary AI code of practice.

Emphasis added. If the result of not signing a voluntary code of practice is massive fines and IP blocks, was it really "voluntary?"

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

The article literally references the legend of John Henry, yeah.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the code it produced literally didn't work do you think it would have got second place?

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