Carl T. Bergstrom on Nostr: But the clock is ticking because google is so big and so powerful that its own ...

But the clock is ticking because google is so big and so powerful that its own internal enshittification process has massive spillover effects on the entire WWW.

For the first time in a quarter-century I can imagine the death of the web as we know it, into a wasteland of GPT-6 content—the output of a model trained on mostly on the output of GPT-5—trawled only by chatbots pretending to be human readers to scrape up what ever remnants of long-term contract ad dollars are left to be had.

/fin