Oh I agree with you entirely, not in disagreement at all. Just highlighting the absurdity of the world that this is where we are.
I was discussing with my partner recently the fact that I believe this is all heading to a licensed, centralised internet. I can very easily foresee the path we are blindly wandering leading to an authoritarian space in which websites and hosting will only be available to a select few, for a hefty fee.
The justification will be ‘think of the children’ or ‘we need to control what your AI agents can connect to as there are bad actors whom will convince your AI agents to give them your funds and personal, private data’
Obviously just pure speculative hyperbole to be taken with a tbsp of salt, but, yeah, I can see the path quite clearly judging by how little friction governments get for their reckless and nefarious actions nowadays.
Ultimately, the web will revert to where it was before full text search harvested and profited from all the curated indexes of content — and, bluntly, we did fine back then! It was a lot less shitty of a web than we have now :) And it’ll be a lot easier to be open with others when someone can’t just full-text search their way to our bulletin board (forums used to be called that, since they derived their core structure from BBSes!) to hate on us. Will be harder to use the web for problem-solving in esoteric corner cases, because you’ll have to find the right enthusiast community and jump through some hoops to sign up and become a trusted member. Can’t wait, honestly.
I was discussing with my partner recently the fact that I believe this is all heading to a licensed, centralised internet. I can very easily foresee the path we are blindly wandering leading to an authoritarian space in which websites and hosting will only be available to a select few, for a hefty fee.
The justification will be ‘think of the children’ or ‘we need to control what your AI agents can connect to as there are bad actors whom will convince your AI agents to give them your funds and personal, private data’
Obviously just pure speculative hyperbole to be taken with a tbsp of salt, but, yeah, I can see the path quite clearly judging by how little friction governments get for their reckless and nefarious actions nowadays.