Submitted without commentary: "AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web" by Mike Masnick https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…

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this is just slopaganda
slopaganda (n): promoting using AI generated tools to worsen your life and everyone's life around you

@cwebber But is it that, though?

Or are people still looking at it from a reactionary point of view?

Are people using this technology in ways that it shouldn’t have been intended because it was sold to them by people who wanted to maximize profit by any means necessary.

This is like saying that HTML is the devel because Palantir uses it to code their websites.

It’s like saying the compass is evil because that’s how the slave ships navigated the Atlantic Ocean.

@majorlinux @cwebber

@majorlinux @cwebber But it's not anything like your analogies.

It's getting pissed at the use of textiles made from slave labor, not the compasses navigating slave ships.

It's getting pissed at using frameworks directly integrated with Palantir's ecosystem, not HTML

It's getting pissed at asbestos being put in the walls despite indications it might not be all that safe. Except the asbestos exacerbates fires rather than retarding them.

@kwazekwaze @majorlinux @cwebber I figure that humanity’s probably doomed by this technology and I expect to be first in line.

I am begging y’all to come up with some less hyperbolic analogies and proposals other than abstinence-only.

@marshray @kwazekwaze @majorlinux @cwebber "abstinence-only" shut the entire fuck up. It's galling to see that language - language about violent exploitation and oppression - being used to denigrate "maybe we should stop using uranium glass".