Paul KedroskyFeb 9, 2023

It's adorable that people are only slowly realizing that Google search at least fed sites traffic, while chat AI thingies slurp up and summarize content, which they anonymize and feed back, leaving the slurped sites traffic-less and dying. But, innovation.

It is, in a way, a tragedy of the commons problem, with no easy way to police "over grazing" of the information commons, leading to automated over-usage and eventual ecosystem collapse.

Show threadNeil Kandalgaonkar

@paul I learned a lot from what you said here. It's a powerful metaphor.

I hope you can take this as constructive feedback because I'd like this idea to spread: I hesitate to share it because of the "it's adorable" framing. When people are coming around to your way of thinking it's probably not the best to berate them as infantile for not doing it sooner

Feb 13, 2023 at 7:28pmWeb