@anildash Web is literally dying because of AI. No one wants to spend time on browsing.

RIP Google.

@anildash Thanks for your article. Shortly after reading it I found a fawning piece by VOX. "ChatGPT’s new mission is to fix the broken web" 🤮

https://www.vox.com/technology/465795/chatgpt-atlas-google-chrome-gemini-perplexity-comet

This simply shocking...

@anildash This is something that I've pondered for a bit, which is LLMs as their own walled gardens. Well there are many interesting and beneficial things that an llm can do, user lock-in to a black box isn't one of them.

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Sorry, but this is "preaching to the choir".

If you want people to value your posts, best not to (needlessly) antagonize them.

@anildash If you’re gonna subtweet me, man, there are less obvious ways to do it.

@anildash @ramsey Regarding the technology behind AI, I’m certainly in that middle group you’ve been talking about, but when it comes to the companies behind it, and especially OpenAI, I’m a scrub it out of existence extremist.

For someone so willing to trash CLI your website renders _beautifully_ in Lynx.
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@anildash I'm unclear why you take potshots at people who enjoyed (or still enjoy) text adventure games, though? These were often incredible works of art and the language of using them was well understood by those who played. The whole line about "physical touch" is just incredibly mean and directs your ire at the wrong target. It spoils an otherwise great article.

@anildash while I agree on myn points. I cant agree that the command line was just guessing commands. I left Macintosh and went to Linux as on a Mac I had to guess where I will find settings and also if it was not in the menu it was not possible. So a GUI is also a restriction.

@anildash I am not sure if your‘re not confusing the internet - a foul place full of ads in an amount that is entirely unacceptable in every other medium, where half of the content creators are trying to rob you and cheat you and lie to you - with the internet from 20 years ago that was worth protecting from an AI layer on top that hides what‘s below. (1/2)

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This is the realization of Dead Internet Theory right on your desktop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

@anildash It baffles me that they keep refusing to let anyone out of the prompt at all, ever, for any reason.

If a paper i wrote refused to cite sources and actively discouraged the reader from trying to find any themself through obfuscation, etc, i don't think that would get very far. We should not accept the same, here.

These tools would actually be a lot more useful if they would be willing to provide links and sources/citations. We could double check their output (probably reason #1 they don't want to) and use them as an actual search engine that could supplement existing search engines. Instead, they're trying to take over our lives and trap us in a box.

This is a new technology that's hostile to humanity attempting to disguise itself as a different technology that opens up a huge amount of human knowledge to anyone with a computer. (And these days, "computer" is pretty generic, too.)

@anildash ChatGPT and a number of other big tech AI systems are not only anti-Web but also anti-human.

@anildash warning: contains a bad take about people who love CLIs

@anildash this fits so much to what @Vivaldi #browser is saying, and which is why they don't want to make their browser "AI powered". They want to keep it human instead.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/
#Vivaldi

@anildash Don't use AI.

@anildash chrome is best

@anildash This was great, per usual. I'm struck by a few things from this but maybe most of all how *small* this whole dumb dumb thing (inclusive of, maybe, broader ChatGPT interfaces et al) makes the internet feel, in a bad way. The sense of "this goes on forever" is getting shoved into a really tiny box, and not in a good way. (Gonna ruminate on this a bit.)

@anildash Great article, nice to be able to easily point people to something that clearly explains this new horror.

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There are several search terms that produce fewer & fewer results as time passes.

1. The billionaires funding MAGA fascism
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors

2. The word "billionaire" with any critique. Just puff pieces, no take-downs
3. Corruption
4. Critical Race Theory
5. Abortion
6. Climate change
7. The names of the billionaires of Koch Network & Rockbridge Network
8. The corruption of the Courts & the Federalist Society donors
9. The Heritage Foundation's efforts to dismantle the EU

@anildash I was interested until I read “we left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason.”

Um…

@anildash @anj named for the treacherous BioShock character, I assume

@anildash "ChatGPT may give you inaccurate information", but nobody is going to think that means "sometimes this tool completely fabricates content, gives me a box that looks like a search box, and shows me the fabricated content in a display that looks like a web page when I type in the fake search box"."
Brilliant article, thanks for sharing this info!

@anildash *shrugs*

@anildash "Antiweb Browser" is a great name and what we should use from now on.

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Mac version is only for Apple silicon. That leaves me out for at least 5 years...

@anildash browser should be name Honeypot

@anildash cool. I like blocking obnoxious morons who have lots of followers.

@anildash Great write-up - thanks!

@anildash LOL why did anybody even download this?

@anildash Great article. Many thoughts that I had when I first heard of Atlas, but would never have written it as concisively as this!

@anildash I don't need to imagine, I saw how AOL worked.

@anildash Thank you for this.

@anildash I hesitate to ask why it was named Atlas.

@anildash "There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought this was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet." 💀💀💀

@anildash Nothing you have written is wrong but you are a bit mean to the friendly CLI

@anildash that's some truly brilliant analysis 👏

@anildash I enjoyed reading this article very much 🙏🏼

@anildash i just can't believe they named it after my dog 😢