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0 pointsabeppu7mo ago0 comments

But also because companies that produce web content wanted it to be seen by humans who would look at ads, not consumed by bots and synthesized with other info into a product owned by some other firm.

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dreamcompiler7mo ago

And yet today most websites are being scraped by LLM bots which don't look at ads and which synthesize with other info into a product owned by some other firm.

1gn157mo ago

Optimistically, the semantic web is going to happen. Just that instead of the original plan of website owners willingly making data machine-readable, LLMs will be the ones turning non-machine-readable data machine-readable (which can then be processed by user agents), even if the website owner prefers you looked at the ads instead.

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0 pointsabeppu7mo ago0 comments

But also because companies that produce web content wanted it to be seen by humans who would look at ads, not consumed by bots and synthesized with other info into a product owned by some other firm.

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dreamcompiler7mo ago

And yet today most websites are being scraped by LLM bots which don't look at ads and which synthesize with other info into a product owned by some other firm.

1gn157mo ago

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