It's wild. I remember in the past before AI you could Google song lyrics and meanings and get actual decent articles written by critics, and discussion websites/forums with comments written by actual people. Nowadays you do the same thing, and you get a ton of AI written articles that are often completely wrong because they don't understand context. For instance, in rastafarian music or music that takes inspiration from reggae, "Babylon" is used to refer to the capitalist, colonialist, consumerist, materi western world. AI articles will give you biblical references to Revelations devoid of this context. If they give you any interpretation at all!

Here's an example I got from an AI article that is completely wrong.

Lyrics:

"Go ahead put your red dress on
Days of white robes have come and gone
Come and gone
Oh you rivers, oh you waters run
Come bear witness to the Whore of Babylon"

What the article states:

The imagery of changing attire symbolizes a shift in power dynamics and societal norms, urging listeners to confront change and embrace authenticity.

The AI can't even figure out that white robes refers to the KKK, or that the whole thing is an ironic/sarcastic quip making fun of the idea that racism has ended. It can't even tie it back to "Babylon". It does not understand what is happening at a fundamental level.

The "Dead internet" wasn't real when it was invented but it is now.

It's been that way for close to a decade now. But I guess reaching the point where you can no longer add "reddit" to get a relevant human-curated result.

The golden age of the internet lasted less than 20 years.

The golden age of streaming media lasted like 10.

Capitalism and especially the stock market ruins everything. Is it enough to just turn a profit? No, we must think of the shareholders.

Recipe websites are already such SEO shitholes that I can't wait for them to them to go through a few cycles of Hapsburg AI. The cheapest LLMs they can use are going to spit out "step 1. combine Sorry This Goes Against ChatGPT's Content Guidelines flurrh with 50L water vinegar" and that will be the top result because it at least spells water correctly unlike its million worse competitors. Every other LLM will be forced to eat that as a data point if they hope to release a new model with exponentially more data points to sound less nonsensical. Nobody will organically interact with those websites or any third-party community which features them because it feels cheap and has no use value. The only human feedback, if there is any, will be someone they have to pay who probably isn't a cook. I signed up for one of those AI checking websites to poison it and if they ever select me I'm an expert in multiple fields I plan to just google if I don't know what the words mean. The top result on google is normally algorithmic shit or someone on reddit who learned it from a bot on reddit.

Things have changed considerably from when I first really began to use the internet 17 years ago. I feel quite lost at times, especially since I started out at the tail end of the previous iteration of the web.

Bring back webrings.

I was looking up a guide on kid's bikes and came across a dad blog. It was just an AI article with a table of Amazon affiliate links. Its just AI, SEO, and bullshit out there

wikipedia is the last website

I am very excited about the product 🙂

I wonder if you could filter this stuff out. Like a Great Firewall that retvrns the internet to what it was like in 2010.

https://searx.neocities.org