RIP. Another feed gone from my RSS reader, because the author fully succumbed to AI propaganda and doomerism.
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@algernon
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Yes, will rant about it, but bedtime stories first.
In today's episode of "algernon goes unfiltered on fedi instead of writing a blog post", he will talk about why the advice of "You probably shouldn't block AI bots from your website" is a bad advice, and why you should do the exact opposite.
Kind of.
I mean, you shouldn't block them, that much I agree. You should serve them garbage. But lets not rush ahead yet!
@algernon i just setup iocaine on my server to protect user content, and ran into a snag with nginx and docker, and boy do the search engines absolutely do not want to tell you anything about iocaine. They pretend it's just a Princess Bride thing and that's it. Good job! You're disruptive!
@algernon unfollowed that author months ago because of something or other. Can’t remember exactly what, but I do remember saying something to the effect of “oh fuck off”. Always came off as very self-important anyway.
@algernon I think this calls for 
But that's how progress works: there are winners and there are losers.
Dude. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of "progress". Progress means moving forward, to grow. The slop machines don't do that.
These bastards are killing the open web, moving us backwards by making it even harder to self-host anything, driving us towards centralization, which is the exact opposite of progress.
They steal and plunder, and make the life of everyone outside the billionaire / fascist class miserable. That is not progress.
Companies keep firing people "because AI will take over their jobs", only to re-hire them at lower wage, because the AI absolutely can't. This is not progress.
It's being pushed and forced on us. That is not progress.
And the bit about winners and losers? The fucking bubble is bursting. Who the fuck do you think will win? The billionaires and fascists.
Why the everlinving fuck should we concede to them?
The zero-sum thinking that claims that there must be winners and losers in the world is the cry of the reactionary.
No. There is nothing in the world requiring that there be winners and users. The grand meta-narrative that all is competition and nothing is cooperative is false. If your system, and your "progress" demands that some must lose so others might win; then it is no progress at all.
Even if it's painful, losers need to adapt
So, you're telling me we should bend over and get fucked?
How about no.
"losers need to adapt" my ass. Humanity prevailed to this day because we fucking didn't give up.
Sure, the world is on fire, our leaders and the elite are driving us towards catastrophe. But that is all the more reason to not bend over. Bending over is not serving progress.
While we, the content publishers, are the clear losers of the AI revolution
What revolution, my man? What revolution? Large scale fraud is not revolution.
it's also inevitable.
Oh, please. Cryptocurrency was inevitable. NFTs were inevitable. Web3 was inevitable. Fascism was inevitable. Gun deaths are inevitable. Now AI is inevitable.
Considering past hype cycles, I remain unconvinced.
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