Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by baumschubser on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:33AM
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from all aspects of AI, i find this the one that is easiest to ignore. AI might poison your reading, don't let it poison your writing. Why not continue doing your thing? This feeling of estrangement is not new in a world where every usefulness has to express itself as exchange value. Just have a service provider handle the additional load and don't stop being a thinking, writing, picture taking and social human being.
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Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by mitxela on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:37AM
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Or poison your own writing for AI.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by phoronixrly on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:30PM
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This is the future -- adversarial prose and adversarial source code. It is already working as seen with LLMs citing disinfo directly from Reddit.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by spiderice on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:03PM
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No, it really isn't. If you think a 0.1% of writing being "poisoned" is going to trick AI, you're wildly underestimating AI's capabilities.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by phoronixrly on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:12PM
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Oh? People keep parroting that but the small detail missing is that there needs to be enough volume of correct information to counter your adversarial disinfo. Otherwise the LLM is one agentic call away from stating it as fact.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by mid-kid on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:02PM
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Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by mitxela on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:33PM
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Research showed AI training could be poisoned by as few as five documents in a training set of millions.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by demibabs on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:47AM
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It seems to me like he wants to keep doing his thing; it’s just that the open web isn’t the place for it.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by matt3210 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:14PM
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> Why not continue doing your thing?
Writing software or english in the AI era is the same feeling as playing a video game without cheat codes you already beat using cheat codes.
The game is not ruined permanently.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by card_zero on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:59PM
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That doesn't ruin a good game. It might spoil a plot-based game. It doesn't ruin a game where you creatively interact with mechanisms and rules, because all a cheat does is push some of those mechanisms and rules aside, so that you skip interacting with the substantial part of the game.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by klodolph on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:42PM
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Writing English in the AI era is like going for an hour-long walk in the park, when previously it took you 15 minutes via a crowded subway, where you were stabbed in the neck by a raging lunatic while a nearby passenger blasted Coldplay at 100 dB.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by account42 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:51AM
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It's more like replacing the park with plastic immitation trees.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by ninjalanternshk on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:44AM
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No the park hasn’t changed.
It’s like walking in the park when everyone else is zipping past you on scooters, and there’s nobody going your speed for you to talk with or even smile at.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by card_zero on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:57AM
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I think "previously" meant "previously, using AI," not "previously to AI." The comment is confusing because "the AI era" seems like the antecedent of "previously" but it isn't.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by jdashg on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:24PM
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Maybe for you!
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by pennomi on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:14PM
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I wrote an algorithm to instantly solve Boggle, but it’s still a delightful game to play without technology. I don’t think that AI ruins the satisfaction of doing things yourself.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by belZaah on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:16AM
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He doesn’t stop being all that. What he does is stop spending money so someone else can take his work and use it for its own commercial purposes.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by account42 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:48AM
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> Just have a service provider handle the additional load
That implies having a "service provider" in the first place, which is itself a bastardization of the open web.
Re:Running web sites makes me not want to
by ninjalanternshk on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:40AM
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Not necessarily. Having an “open web” doesn’t require you to be a network peer. You have to pay someone to bring the bandwidth to you. A CDN just moves that connection point a little. It actually allows you the freedom to run whatever server you want with much lower hardware and bandwidth requirements — even if 100% of your traffic were true humans.
That said, a CDN is only good for standard web traffic, not some custom game/chat/video service you might invent, but then again crawlers aren’t hitting those.