I personally think AI has less of an effect on the tumultuous changes the web is going through. I think it’s really only the cherry on top, and the biggest cause IMO is the “infinite growth at the cost of infinite debt free and powered by ads paying 1/1000 of a $ per view” model collapsing.
Sure AI putting out sludge content and using up server space might not be helping, but the web already might be fracturing and IMO it could turn out alright. A static blog can be hosted for free or extremely cheap, a small hosted community like a fediverse instance can be hosted for 3-5$, and more competition amongst the corporate sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) is not a bad thing - and bonus points if people start following content from those services from within web wrappers or RSS instead of the official apps.
And yeah, it wouldn’t be perfect (I know that these platforms have brought value to people, and I also know money is tight for a lot of people); but I don’t see the big services going away entirely either.
I personally think AI has less of an effect on the tumultuous changes the web is going through. I think it’s really only the cherry on top, and the biggest cause IMO is the “infinite growth at the cost of infinite debt free and powered by ads paying 1/1000 of a $ per view” model collapsing.
Sure AI putting out sludge content and using up server space might not be helping, but the web already might be fracturing and IMO it could turn out alright. A static blog can be hosted for free or extremely cheap, a small hosted community like a fediverse instance can be hosted for 3-5$, and more competition amongst the corporate sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) is not a bad thing - and bonus points if people start following content from those services from within web wrappers or RSS instead of the official apps.
And yeah, it wouldn’t be perfect (I know that these platforms have brought value to people, and I also know money is tight for a lot of people); but I don’t see the big services going away entirely either.