All it takes is for the "omg AI slop!!111" and "would someone think of my copyrights?" crowd to get their way - resulting in a conventional or legal ban for using AI user-agents on the Internet without express consent of a site/service provider. From there, it will be APIs all over again: much like today, you can't easily pipe your Facebook photo to your OneDrive and make a calendar invite - but you can use (for example) Zapier with Facebook Integration, OneDrive Integration and Google Calendar Integration, we'll end up with LLM/chatbot companies whose main value is in their exclusive set of integrations they offer.
So true, it's not going to be "I use PolishDude20GPTBook because my family and friends are on it". It's going to be, "I use PolishDude20GPTBook because they have contracts with Gazeta.pl, Onet, TVN24, OLX and Allegro, so I can use it to get local news and find best-priced products in a convenient way, whereas I can't use TeMPOraLxity for any of that".
Contracts over APIs, again.
As long as the "think of my copyright / AI slop oneoneone" crowd wins. It must not.
The only reason that there is a "AI-slop-crowd" (as you call it) is that, well...there is a lot of (Gen-)AI slop. If the technology was as miraculous as it has been hyped up for several years now, there would be no such crowd. Everyone would just get on. If a tech just does what it says it does, everyone gets on board. Internet is a great example of this, so were the smartphones after the iPhone moment. There was never an Anti-Internet-Crowd, I wonder why that might be?
> There was never an Anti-Internet-Crowd, I wonder why that might be?
You forgot the dotcom boom? :)
Existence of AI slop has nothing to do with whether the tech itself is exceeding or falling short of its hype. It exists because it's good enough for advertising, the cancer on modern society that metastasizes to every new medium and technology, defiling and destroying everything it touches.
No, what you mean with dotcom boom? That's a completely wrong comparison. The dotcom-boom had more to do with the credit crunch of 2008, not with the inherent qualities of Internet as a technology. With or without dotcom boom, people continued to use Internet, because it was useful to them. I don't remember anyone was promising us that Internet would be able to do this and that, if only... It just worked and everyone got what it was about, right from the start. Where is that moment with LLMs? Summarising my emails, inventing non-existing functions in my code? Hard pass :)
So true, it's not going to be "I use PolishDude20GPTBook because my family and friends are on it". It's going to be, "I use PolishDude20GPTBook because they have contracts with Gazeta.pl, Onet, TVN24, OLX and Allegro, so I can use it to get local news and find best-priced products in a convenient way, whereas I can't use TeMPOraLxity for any of that".
Contracts over APIs, again.
As long as the "think of my copyright / AI slop oneoneone" crowd wins. It must not.