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AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rapid changes, fueled by AI, are impacting the large pockets of the internet, argues a new column. An excerpt:

In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There's the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an "AI editor" expects "output of 200 to 250 articles per week." ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy is flooded with "AI-generated junk."

Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. LinkedIn is using AI to stimulate tired users. Snapchat and Instagram hope bots will talk to you when your friends don't. Redditors are staging blackouts. Stack Overflow mods are on strike. The Internet Archive is fighting off data scrapers, and "AI is tearing Wikipedia apart." The old web is dying, and the new web struggles to be born. The web is always dying, of course; it's been dying for years, killed by apps that divert traffic from websites or algorithms that reward supposedly shortening attention spans. But in 2023, it's dying again -- and, as the litany above suggests, there's a new catalyst at play: AI.

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[–] iconic_admin 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another symptom, every tutorial is a video now. I just want to read a quick 1 minute answer with no sound, not watch a 10 minute video and smash subscribe buttons.

[–] inspxtr 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t worry, we will (may already) have ML/AI models to process the videos to create your tutorial, just input URL and desired length. Then you can use LLM to elaborate further. But what if static texts ain’t good enough for you? You ask those big models to do text-to-video generation for you.

[–] Heastes 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry, we will (may already) have ML/AI models [...]

We do, yeah. Run the video through OpenAI whisper and you've got a text transcription.

You can just stop right there or feed that into GPT4 and have it rewrite/restructure it to be more fit for text. You can set up a script to have that be done with essentially 0 user input.

The tech that isn't quite there yet is text to video. It exists, but I don't think it's quite hands-off enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And then you just have to hope that the LLM didn’t l lie to you, so you verify with a human made video.