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[–] Lemmylefty 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does it feel like these “game changing” techs have lives that are accelerating? Like there’s the dot com bubble of a decade or so, the NFT craze that lasted a few years, and now AI that’s not been a year.

The Internet is concentrating and getting worse because of it, inundated with ads and bots and bots who make ads and ads for bots, and being existentially threatened by Google’s DRM scheme. NFTs have become a joke, and the vast majority of crypto is not far behind. How long can we play with this new toy? Its lead paint is already peeling.

[–] joel_feila 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read an article about the bot collapse. Basically companies use bot to buy add space on websties. Google uses a bot to match adds to websites. Now we have a massive influx of AI made pages. Literally pages of bs just to make more add space that a bot will sell to another not. It is bots all the way down.

[–] Lemmylefty 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Lemmylefty 2 points 1 year ago
[–] hydroel 6 points 1 year ago

And don't forget the metaverse!

[–] average650 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't put nfts in the same boat as the dotcom bust. The dotcom thing was way bigger. Most people didn't do anything with nfts. Crypto seems in between. The AI thing seems similar though.