This. This is exactly what I both predict and fear.

"We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information. Finding unbiased and independent product reviews, expert tech support, and all manner of helpful advice ..." 1/2

"... will now resemble the process by which one now searches for illegal sports streams or pirated journal articles. The decades of real human conversation hosted at places like Reddit will prove useful training material for the mindless bots and deceptive marketers that replace it."

--Alex Pareene

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(h/t @mitchw)

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@karawynn @mitchw I want to argue with this. But I'm not sure I can.😐

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