Just over the last few years it went virtual reality, blockchain and crypto crap, and now chatbots.
What will the next fad be? I’d like to know so I can convince one of these VC ghouls that they should give me money for vaporware.
Just over the last few years it went virtual reality, blockchain and crypto crap, and now chatbots.
What will the next fad be? I’d like to know so I can convince one of these VC ghouls that they should give me money for vaporware.
The technology behind LLMs is a 1000000x force multiplier for scammers, spammers, astroturfers. For your average person, it’s like Spell Check 2.0.
A lot of companies are taking their existing AI-less SaaS products and are looking to upcharge $10-$50/month for reselling you a handful of "Open"AI API calls.
The free and open web is closing shop because they don’t want to be scraped by LLM trainers. Or because Google algorithms allow a rando to buy a domain, put a “reword this article” LLM proxy over your website to steal all your organic traffic.
I am becoming more and more convinced that we are going to have to RETVRN to webrings and manually curated directories
Honestly, I agree and I’m here for it.
“RETVRN”? I’ve never left
Can you recommend any directories/webrings in particular? I’m obviously looking back on things with rose-tinted glasses–I wish Google would just work properly like it used to–but I think it’s a good way to break out of the big tech bubble.
I’ve seen a couple of them out there. Discoverability is utter trash but I think that’s what you’d expect from super niche “welcome to my intersite!” type microcommunities
Hell yeah