'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web
"The North Star in this system is that everything should be able to connect to everything else. That openness is really vital to the utility of the internet." - Vint Cerf
#internet #VintCerf #BrewsterKahle #CindyCohn #JonStokes #technology #tech
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-truth-is-paywalled-internet-vets-lament-the-state-of-the-open-web
"I can easily imagine tools that take prompts like 'educate all the quotes', 'check all the block quotes for source links', 'make sure all the links in the piece work and are correct', add a features list widget by pulling specs from this press kit I just uploaded', 'check the photos for attribution', and turn them into staged changes that can be accepted or rejected after a brief preview or diff screen."
#JonStokes, 2023
https://www.jonstokes.com/p/heres-how-generative-ai-can-fix-the
Do we really need "#AI" to automate this stuff?
Can't help but think this is a classic case of a solution in search of a problem;
"I’ll want a Google Docs-like real-time editor interface where I can collaborate with other writers and with the LLM."
#JonStokes, 2023
https://www.jonstokes.com/p/heres-how-generative-ai-can-fix-the
I was using an interface like that 20 years ago, without the LLM, to collaboratively edit feature articles for the Aotearoa Indymedia front page with the rest of the team. An early version of Medium had a similar collaborative drafting system.
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"... we were all better off when a reporter was someone with some hustle, deep connections in a community, and an ability to sniff out and piece together stories — especially stories that powerful people don’t want told. People who have those qualities should be able to be reporters regardless of whether they can even spell, much less reliably manifest 800 words in a classic inverse pyramid ..."
#JonStokes, 2023
https://www.jonstokes.com/p/heres-how-generative-ai-can-fix-the
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