Mark Nottingham on Nostr: People say that AI is killing the Web, but content farms existed and were a problem ...
People say that AI is killing the Web, but content farms existed and were a problem king before AI took off.
What they both share is a profit motive this is satisfied by automated, large scale advertising.
So it’s more accurate to say that unrestricted advertising is killing the Web.
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