AIis killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CFYQ)
Image: The Verge In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There's the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an AI editor" expects output of 200 to 250 articles per week." ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy is flooded with AI-generated junk." Chatbots cite one another in a misinformation ouroboros. LinkedIn is using AI to stimulate tired users. Snapchat and Instagram hope bots will talk to you when your friends don't. Redditors are staging blackouts. Stack Overflow mods are on strike. The Internet Archive is...