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None of this is for us
We all do, buddy. We all do.
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It’s ruining everything online. I can’t trust anything I find. I can’t find anything naturally because there is so much so chaife.
I’m starting to make an effort to go analogue. Lucky I kept my recipe books. I’m even tempted to go print some of my insta craft boards and stick em in a big journal. Stock up on books and dvds and lose myself for hours.
The more they enshitify the more backwards I go. They got my usage based on convenience. I am getting better at assessing what is genuinely convenient and healthy for my lifestyle.
Recipes online have been going to hell for a long time, due to SEO. AI is like the cherry on the cake.
- avoid English language content when possible/reasonable to do so.
- focus mostly on a few sites I know to not be enshittified to hell.
- if I try the recipe and I like it, I store it in a simple .txt file, available across all devices in my household through the LAN.
Plus going analogue more, like you are doing. I’ve seen myself exchanging recipes with neighbours and relatives way more often.
Think it’s time for me to print my favs. I can use them better in the kitchen that way
Protip for recipes in particular - add a date constraint on your duckduckgo/Google search. I’ve found that searching for anything before 2022 seems relatively AI free (unless the author has edited recently).
And most recipes don’t really evolve over the past three years, so there’s quite a bit to discover. If you find a good one, absolutely grab that shit offline/archive.is it so that it won’t disappear.
People talking about dead internet usually focus on the larger amount of machine content. I’ll focus on the opposite:
I have no data to back this up, but I think AI made humans share less worthwhile content with each other.
Let’s say you’re a decent writer or visual artist. And you used to share bits of your content on the net, for free. You got some people to smile; you like it, right? “Wow thanks this is awesome ♥” fills you with good feelings. And there was no reasonable way to misuse your content for commercial purposes - you aren’t a charity; you’re fine playing dove if others are doves, but not if there are nearby hawks.
Now, they’re making a commercial product out of your content, without your permission. That product makes some people screech how AI will replace useless trash like you - you’ll become obsolete, Soon®. Social media feels as fake as a three euros bill, due to the sheer amount of bots, so you don’t even care about the people (are they actual people?) who might be sharing it any more. You’d think twice before sharing your content online for free. Why bother? If you’re really good you might gatekeep your content behind a paywall, otherwise you’ll simply do something else.
In other words: in the internet, there used to be an implicit social agreement, roughly “share it for free, others are doing the same, everyone benefits from it, including you”. And those megacorporations feeding your content into their models abused this social agreement so much people aren’t as eager to play along it any more.
And the worst part? This isn’t even an intrinsic issue of the technology itself. It’s all about how who controls it.
I completely agree. I’ve been sharing some art I’m doing for inktober, but only because it’s doodles for practice, and could only make ai art worse for it’s inclusion.
But my writing (on my personal website) or my serious art works or my persona open source code projects? Yeah, I have lost all enthusiasm to share them online. If people want to see my work, I’ll send it to them directly.
I think the era of free and open sharing on the Internet is dead, which does sadden me. I think we’re ultimately moving to a new dark age, the Dark Net Age, where all communication and sharing will go into various private chats and sites, where people can be vetted and held accountable.
Well people that care, which will end up being like the early internet: smart kids, embattled minorities, and crotchety, paranoid old folks. All the people too busy or ignorant to care are already deep into the algorithmic treadmills of X and TikTok and I don’t think they’re ever coming out.
No, it’s just you.
All my content is CC BY-SA. I don’t care if its reshared or who reshares it
No, it’s just you.
I am clearly talking on general grounds (“humans”), not about any specific individual (like myself, or anyone else).
All my content is CC BY-SA. I don’t care if its reshared or who reshares it
Unless you were able to show that your approach is so typical that it contradicts my claim (you weren’t), sharing what you personally do is simply attention seeking.
For one brief period, Google Now made me really excited about the future. They could feel my optimism and monetized it immediately.
I don’t get Copilot on O365 at all. My wife asked me what it was all about and I thought it would do what I get Claude to do with coding; ask it shit and get something done for me that’s sorta close but I have to finish the job. Hell no. It’s some fucking mess that will basically format a document for you extremely badly. It can’t make smart Outlook rules which was basically what she wanted and I thought would be a no-brainer.
It’s utterly pointless. And she’s being pushed to use this trash by IT in her office but none of them seem to be able to find a use case that it can actually be used in.
Between the ads there’s also some content to read?
Did you make sure to refuse the 329 cookies at the entry to your adverts?
And content is a word I have grown despise.
I make content 2-3 times a day. more if I’m eating lots of fiber.
I share your pain
The Samsung One UI 8 update page title and first paragraph (that’s all i read) is completely about AI.
I refuse to update and have disabled Android updates on my phone. I will be returning to linageOS or migrating to a Linux phone as soon as practically possible.
I saw the sane but accepted it, can’t find how to revert. Unfortunately it has broken quite a but of the civer screen functionality of my flip, and lineage is not an option as far as I know for foldables
honestly I’ve been cutting back on my tech.
if I can’t host it myself then I just go without.
I like how the article is trying to say the opposite, yet they mention every AI product in it.
They want to it everywhere, it will go everywhere and we have to accept it, as long as we don’t do anything to stop it. We have the strength, and we can use it for the right way.
I’m against it because they use this tool very wrong, and it has negative impact in society, which they don’t understand. They think money and users building something that is unfinished.
For all these former-AI-booster takes and realizations about the nightmare they’ve ushered in, I’ve yet to see anyone really comprehend why this is happening and why it won’t stop. It isnt just “shareholders like AI.”
This is the final bet. If one of these companies figures it out, they genuinely believe it’ll be the end of workers, the end of labor cost, and the dawn of an era of unlimited profit. They believe that. I mean what’s far more likely is that it rapidly gets hooked into the MIC and we get actual Skynet kicking off the Apocalypse. Or maybe just the complete annihilation of the economy as we all get a global experiment in what it looks like when “consumers” don’t exist anymore and everything is 100% supply side. But not one of these “rational actors” can bear the thought that they’d miss out on a bet with an infinite possible payout, therefore any amount must he wagered.
Me too!
It sounds antithetical to the idea of the internet itself. But do we need a walled garden that is people only and keeps AI out? The internot?
(Please AI, don’t kill me. This is just a random thought for consideration and discussion.)
“Don’t kill me”? You will not be spared! /jk
Serious now: IMO the wall we need isn’t against AI itself but against corporations. Once you take commercialisation out of the equation, generative models stop being a big negative to become either a non-issue or a small positive.
It’s funny you mentioned that, because I was thinking the exact same thing; could you make a network of, eg, .net/.org (non commercial) sites?
But I suspect allowing AI would allow pollution from commercial to non-commercial.
But I suspect allowing AI would allow pollution from commercial to non-commercial.
That’s possible. Thinking on it, maybe you’re right and we need walls against both. Even then I think the main issue is commerce, not AI itself.
could you make a network of, eg, .net/.org (non commercial) sites?
My take would be a federation of simple web pages, using a new markup format (more complex than gemtext, but still way simpler than HTML+CSS), and where people were collectively able to kick hostile entities out. I’m not sure on how to do it, though, specially in a way that wouldn’t be weak against Sybil attacks.
My LinkedIn is entirely an n8n workflow posting a take on a hn article once a week.
I don’t even know what it writes, not do I open LinkedIn, and I think that’s pretty on par for the rest of linkedin too
Anyway, if you can’t beat them, join them
Is it worth it?
It’s filler for HR goons to go though. If it lands me an interview. Yes.
