The age of information misinformation

Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There's already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn't seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.

A lot of focus is on how llms are severing connection between the user and the source of info. something I would say is equally if not more concerning is the fact that public services and websites that offer free public access to information are being obliterated by llm agents scraping with absolutely no regard to the site. It’s not just little operations either. Meta takes an approach that I would consider malicious and a threat to anyone hosting anything on the open web as a whole.

The title is a bit misleading. The issue here is data scrapers, period. They aren't being deployed by an AI, and the bots don't have any AI algorithms in them. It's stuff deployed by people, using traditional data scraping algorithms.

It's just the presumed destination of the data being scraped, combined with the fact that the people who run these bots tend to never respect consent

You're gonna wanna sit down for this...

Everyday we're inching towards the cyperpunk timeline. Blackwall

We (soon) have a proofread internet for the paying class.

if all they can do is push ads and slop software then yeah, they suck.

openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?