The "dead internet" is here, and unfortunately there's no going back

It's intentional by design.

Design implies some kind of planning. I think it's a result of different companies making decisions that optimize for the short term.

You can still serve hypertext and not use AI. There's still a place for that sort of thing. There's free real estate serving people who don't wish to become stupid.

I think there's no shortage of interesting and useful information on the internet. There's just a new challenge of filtering out the new source of background noise.

Meanwhile all the script kiddies on this forum: "ChatGPT go brrrrr"

I am growing more and more bitter everyday by how many of us are rushing to build a deader Internet.

Every "Show HN: I have made ChatGPT even easier to use" is a stark reminder that either I am growing old and pessimistic, or for the first time in my career I am disgusted at the direction software engineering is going. Appalled by the lack of ethics and long term philosophical concern of what we are doing with AI.

I just see reckless software engineers happily playing with something they do not understand. Where is the AI equivalent of Oppenheimer's "I have become Death, destroyer of worlds," uttered because of his research on world-changing and world-destroying technology?

I am afraid I will have to separate computers from the idea of the Internet at large to keep enjoying this career: I love programming and computers, but the internet and social media are on the way to become a net negative to humanity in my eyes.

Usable AI sparks interest and therefore funding. If this leads to a large improvement of everyone's life this is a good thing, even if it generates noise in our public spaces.

I might be wrong, but LLM is capable of filtering out noise.

(unless we get content farm SEO spam to avert the model)

You mean like we already most certainly have an entire industry pivoting towards?

They poisoned the well once; from whence doth you think that with money at stake they have suddenly developed enough of a soul to grant them the grace to abstain from doing so again?