[nojs]

This conflict is popping up everywhere. There is a push by a lot of companies to allow agentic use of their services (and new companies explicitly offering "X for agents"), ignoring the fact that "agent" means the same thing as "bot" which we've spent the last couple of decades actively filtering out. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[datsci_est_2015]

Solid insight. What was once profane is now sacred. And it feels like it happened overnight. Lots to ponder on that.

The catalyst is probably the consent of payment processors, if I had to speculate.

[w10-1]

The catalyst may be the upcoming elections.

[janalsncm]

In defense of old-school bots, we had to code them up by hand.

[Gigachad]

The future is the internet will be entirely bot activity and humans will ether be strapped in to the metaverse reels ai slop feed or they will be outside interacting with people in person again. Both of these seem like likely futures and probably both at the same time.

[ethagnawl]

This reality also crystalized for me earlier this week when I saw a post about unchecked AI slop videos about WWE being posted to YouTube. Many of the videos suffer from the LLM stroking out (for lack of a better term) and devolving into mumbling, screaming and white noise. Yet, the comments are replete with obvious bot content which doesn't mention this at all and talks past the larger, flimsy narrative on display (i.e. AI-generated), anyways. We're exhausting our natural resources and reducing quality of life for a great number of real, live people so bots can talk past each other on YouTube.

So, if you're looking for me, I'll be hiking while it's still legal.

[ethagnawl]

Here's the post I was referring to: https://bsky.app/profile/ompu.co/post/3mkjnnvvupk2b

[itsafarqueue]

You better mean “hiking” as in through the metaverse forest strapped into your corporate-sponsored VR headset, because outside time is for citizens only, friend.

[e40]

So pne step towards the Neuromancer universe.

[boothby]

My wildest dream: we make a superintelligence, which destroys humanity to free up resources for it to make and consume an endless stream of impossibly cute kitten videos.

And before anybody replies: no, I don't mean "and puppy." They're just not as cute.