@everton137 @allaboutberlin It's almost funny how on-the-nose another recent example is: overfishing.org. The content harvester/processor is literally overfishing the content fishery. In the real world, overfishing was allowed to happen until enough bounty was destroyed that the surviving processors recognized their doom and got laws passed to restrain each other. Is something like that possible here? It's not a perfect analogy (previously harvested fish can be endlessly recycled, the crisis is more on the margin, processor concentration is much higher), but maybe?
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The author of @allaboutberlin on how Google AI Overviews are killing independent web publishing, citing a 70% drop in traffic after seven years of steady growth. -
Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because@inthehands Hey, I'm curious if you have an opinion on what that contract *should* say? I don't think "pay with traffic" has worked for a long time. What would?
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Hearing the feelings in this rant, which does touch a nerve, I can’t help think about how different the developer community reaction to the LLM push might be if the focus were on quality instead of efficiency.@inthehands The "code assembly line" makes me wonder where all that code is going. Is there a breakdown of all those developer hours by whom they're for? Internal financial services apps? The 100th rewrite of thegap.com? Insurance claim processing? I'm constantly amazed at how the quantity of code seems unrelated to the quantity of *real stuff going on*, especially social-value-producing real stuff like making solar panels and batteries. Maybe there's a bubble in the aggregate code factory?