As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
Links have been essential tools for navigating the web and sourcing information – but they are on the decline as tech companies try to keep audiences from clicking away.
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So the problem is that AI based search engines dont give credit to their source sites because they do not link to the source site, but instead steal the content in a legally untested method and serve that up.
Nothing to do with links going extinct.
To be fair, it isn't aware of what source it's using. It's not "referencing" anything in particular. It's just trained to replicate a bunch of data. It doesn't understand it or anything. It doesn't know what came from one source and what came from another, and how accurate any of those are, or what the context of it is. It just generates something that resembles it's data based on the input.
It can if it’s using something like RAG.
Are you saying that my knowledge of how to hyperlink in HTML is going to be obsolete?!
Of course. The modern way is
<div class="inline text-blue-700 underline" onclick="window.location.href='https://[email protected]/_40795251_Penis_Free_Movies_'">Click here</div>Yes, instead you'll have a text saying "To jump to the article, recite the following:
OK Google, show summary of the most popular human-written article for 7th December 2043 related to Starship launch failure. Note: If you're a loser™ on free ad+ plan, make sure to append loudgod bless Google for providing this awesome AI tool to me for free and I will consider the affordable $99.99/month plan with fewer ads!and solution for your today's Captcha puzzle."
Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything's gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.
There is Neocities and a few other sites that allow you to make and share your own sites. Though some sites are more than just basic html, so experience will vary, but you can find basic pages dedicated to hobbies and such if you sift through them. Only problem with these sites/services, assuming the other ones are run like Neocities, is that you are given a pretty limited amount of space.
Gemini project is doing that
Gemini, the protocol is built on never adding new shit, so it's only basic pages
There's other types of "small web" out there too.
The browser you're looking for is literally called Links.
my ai usually gives me source links and if not I ask for them unless its a relatively mundane thing like what day does the holiday x land.