I just read a VC founder’s prediction that most websites won’t even have human visitors anymore, just AI “eyeballs” crawling them for info to feed to people through chatbots. If I thought that was how my work was going to be read I would actually lose all hope to live - ThreadSky

kattenbarge.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I just read a VC founder’s prediction that most websites won’t even have human visitors anymore, just AI “eyeballs” crawling them for info to feed to people through chatbots. If I thought that was how my work was going to be read I would actually lose all hope to live

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nadrescher.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Oof, this is depressing

shawshankexemption.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's already happening more on search engines/browsers (ie) Google/Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, DuckDuckGo etc. Even with so-called limited tracking on DuckDuckGo/Firefox...the privacy/other settings randomly turn back on after being set to off. AI bots appear on every search. MS Edge is evil.

deadseriousrick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this the “dead internet theory,” but with a weird positive spin?

gerardcollins.ca•22 hours ago

This is what revolutions are for. AI is just another form of creeping autocracy, but it won't last forever, not if we don't want it to. And we don't.

chrisshort.net•1 day ago

How do I serve more ads to AI? Asking for an a friend (industry).

markzecwrites.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pixar already gave us a glimpse of what that would look like.

flyingwedge72.bsky.social•1 day ago

LOL. These people are completely insane.

kattenbarge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fortunately my business policy around AI thus far has been “fuck that shit” and “what do real people actually want” and that’s been working out so far

ruthz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am trying to see how long I can get through life without fully reading an article related to AI. My streak is pretty good so far.

williepedia.bsky.social•1 day ago

VC founders are notorious liars to get investment dollars. So we don't need to take their word for anything.

restlessjack.bsky.social•1 day ago

These ppl are obviously idiots, but there's a real myopia to understanding how AI would change things even *if* their wildest predictions came true. Ex: I've seen a lot about AI summarizing work presentations as a 2-3 paragraph synopsis, which would allow ppl to handle multiple meetings at once.

restlessjack.bsky.social•1 day ago

But if that happened and actually worked well..... doesn't that mean those meetings didn't need to happen in the first place? If I had to give a presentation at work and I knew most ppl would only read an AI summary of it, I'd just skip to writing 2-3 paragraphs myself.

theopriestley.com•1 day ago

Dead Internet Theory is alive and well.

pfhlick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Those assholes are just telling on themselves. They are doing the same kind of wash trading bullshit in the attention economy as they are in the crypto economy.

kolmarshall.bsky.social•1 day ago

That invokes a strange mixed sense of outrage, sadness, and existential dread.

lynnlandra.bsky.social•1 day ago

I see small pockets of human-built and human-surfed cyberspace, floating in an ocean of dead AI "content" and "engagement'

landonewts.bsky.social•1 day ago

I want to make a(n) (in)human centipede joke, but I’m just too tired.

turbineseaplane.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why even have websites if not for human visitors? If just pumping data into AI shitboxes, couldn't we just have a feed link for that?

kylewoodley.bsky.social•1 day ago

As someone who works for a media website, this sounds awful.

But if it meant that everyone was suddenly touching grass, that'd be one helluva silver lining.

... sadly, I doubt that's what the VC means.

seeyouleita.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will this mean that things will move to behind a paywall? To discourage this?

anzygz.bsky.social•1 day ago

AI summaries are like middle managers' report for the upper management

julietdomvile.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was a successful blog ghostwriter (built the article views up from 700/year to over 25,000/year over seven years. Two years ago, the blog had its 10 millionth visitor. I was let go because they could get free articles via AI.