While I appreciate the claims about GPT and Google search-bots-first designed web, I couldn’t agree less with the „coordinated international effort“ part.
I much prefer Maggie Appleton‘s Dark Forest writing and talk on the matter:
> The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.
> It's like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees. If they reveal themselves, they risk being attacked by automated predators.
I much prefer Maggie Appleton‘s Dark Forest writing and talk on the matter:
> The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.
> It's like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees. If they reveal themselves, they risk being attacked by automated predators.
Links:
- https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
- Talk: https://youtu.be/QPoM-h1fK8M
edit: formatting