What do I mean by this (quoted)?
Aren’t there people developing clever barriers to put in the way of LLMs?
Aren’t people like Cloudflare in the process of monetising that?
Yes, sure. But those are still *machine* mediated responses, right?
The web is founded on the idea that it’s people deploying machines in good faith. Obvs, that’s been vulnerable for a while. We’re in the process of that getting much worse
mastodon.social/@urlyman/11572…
…the web, fundamentally an engine of remote machine responses to human requests, is defenceless against the march of (de)generative AI.All the craft I and millions of others have learned will dissolve into slop.
Perhaps we’ll go outside