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Personal blogs aren't going to disappear, there's right now more of them than ever! And there will be more! But the preponderance of sheer cruft will reduce their percentage.
Discoverability of the content you want has always been the problem, and it still will be.
I'm not at all convinced. The personal blog, as it existed in the 2000s/2010s, is essentially dead. There are certainly still some sites which operate on that model - most commonly, in my experience, ones operated by professional authors or artists - but those, too, are increasingly rare.
In fact, I think this is an aspect of a broader trend - having a personal web site is increasingly uncommon. The default nowadays is to post your creations or experiences on social media, and to create communities within hosted services like Reddit or Discord.
Maybe it was generated by an AI in the first place.
One way they could maybe counteract it is approach it like code golf - can you use an LLM to make it much, much shorter? Because being overly verbose dilutes the handful of points you’re trying to make.
At this point, so many things include it as a feature that this is probably the default. Like spellcheck and grammar check 26 years ago (memories of editing page 6 of my coursework only for everything to get a red squiggle underline at once because Word had randomly decided the entire thing was in a different language).
Today I keep finding I want to write "unironically" into HN comments, no, this is not the right word.
*My best guess* is that crudeness of various kinds is going to be a proof of humanity fairly soon. not just swearing but violent language and obscenities, nocap, slang, spell everifing a bit rong, and definitely no symbol you need a modifier key to reach (so these brackets are right out, but this also directly excludes caps because shift is a modifier key). Gen-Z-ers will be mocked by Gen Alpha for using emoji. That kind of thing.
What killed the web was the rise of social media and social media-like sites like Reddit. No one makes a website for their hobby or game/book/movie they're a fan of, and a forum and/or IRC channel for their site, anymore. They just post about it on Facebook or Twitter, or maybe on a subreddit for it, but the sense of community that used to be part of it is totally gone. You don't really get to know people like you used to on a forum. Niche Discord servers don't have this problem as much, but they suffer greatly in terms of discoverability.
AI has made it even worse, because now you can't even be sure you're talking to a person, but in my opinion the centralization around social media was far more damaging.
This is just not true. We even have a dedicated web search for that: https:// wiby.me
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> Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands.
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> Artists had websites. Musicians had websites. Game developers had websites.
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> People want answers. People want connection. People want tools.
This is just impossible to read.
I wonder what this will mean for the future, both of Google and for finding information on the web.
I see Trump saying he's going to be talking to AI companies about them providing Americans with stock. That's one way AI pays us and this other idea I mention above and wrote about on my Substack https://ryanspahn.substack.com/p/ai-to-pay-for-all-americans...
That is never going to happen, lol. That's what Youtube was supposed to be, and the trend is to pay content creators less and less, while keeping them creating the same amount of content.
> It can be a place where every human publishes our daily content to our own websites for AI to pay us to access it and feed off of it.
Social media will still exist. People will want to share content with each other, and it has to live somewhere. Sure, a lot of the interactions with LLM's will go back into the training data, that's already happening. But people aren't going to stop publishing content - because what happens then when there's no more training data out there?
You can't train an AI model without updated repositories of information. There is a bit of a question on whether an AI agent should be the interface for those repositories. Today, that's a very expensive proposition, and probably a silly direction to go (at some point, cheaper ways of doing things are going to win out for some use cases).
> I see Trump saying he's going to be talking to AI companies about them providing Americans with stock.
And this is proof positive why it's a bad idea that will never gain traction.