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Re:New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as c... by wraptile on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:00AM (#37158567)
Is this open web in the room with us? Cheekiness aside, the myth of beautiful open web always seems to be exagerated. Most content on the web is already generated, ugly and spammy. Most of the traffic is already owned by mega corporations.

One could easily argue that it's unlikely it'll get worse - if anything, AI could empower competition as now a group of 3 passionate, free writers can compete with agenda-driven, for profit corporations on a similar level. This could very well make the web more open and free as it makes the web more accessible.

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Re:New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as c... by ben_w on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:24AM (#37158724)
> Most content on the web is already generated, ugly and spammy.

Now? Yes. I grew up when it was just ugly, and by ugly I mean animated gif backgrounds with obvious seams on the tile boundary.

*old man shakes fist at The Cloud*

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