AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? - first off - I LOVE the instantly recognizable Windows 95 art:
The TLDR: AI conversations and Google AI summaries are further removing people clicking through the root articles, and so people making that content have no chance at seeing ad revenue.
The article probably pushes a little too hard going all the way back to "1989" - the fundamental idea of the web - an addressing and protocol setup such that anyone can put up stuff that anyone else can get to - is still alive and well.
Discoverabilty - at its height in the early Google era - is back to being a problem, of course, and the AI status quo threatens anyone trying to make a living via content, so I don't want to underestimate the threat AI makes (And I mean there's this sense of overharvesting; at some point information services are cutting off their seed corn.)
Still proud to be part of the "indie web". It's great to be able to hang a shingle off of the information superhighway, to mix a metaphor or two.
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