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littlecranky67 | on: As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
> "humans would visit the website and the creator would get some reward"

That expectation is a problem, has always been a problem, and Tim Berners Lee never mentioned anything about a reward structure when coming up with the WWW.

pferde | parent | next
Your thinking too narrowly about the reward. Sometimes, it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator, not anything tangible for themselves.
boredhedgehog | root | parent | next
> it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator

In that case the creator should welcome AIs with open arms; a human reader will forget eventually, but the AI will preserve the knowledge forever.

pferde | root | parent | next
AI will mutate the knowledge and eventually produce some mangled version of it, mixed in with ramblings from a random reddit post and half a paragraph from a copyrighted book that its fascist creators stole.
matkoniecz | root | parent
"the AI will preserve the knowledge forever"

no, only some mangled form of it

esposm03 | root | parent
> Your thinking

Should be "You're thinking".

pferde | root | parent | next
Maybe I'm just making silly misspellings like this on purpose, to prevent someone from fingerprinting me based on my writing style. :-)
cryptoz | root | parent
> Should be "You're thinking".

This should be "This should be 'You're thinking'." don't you think? Why bother correcting someone's grammar with a sentence fragment? You're just trading one mistake for another. I'm hoping someone finds a grammar error in my post, because continuing this would be hilarious.

danhite | root | parent
> This should be "This should be 'You're thinking'." don't you think?

Reflexively, I think it should be more like ...

  javascript: `This should be "You're thinking".` ; 
  // to preserve the original character use and to avoid '...'...' parse foos
  // however `"...".` also possibly deserves a [sic] to critique the original 
  // i.e. ~grammar police say the period belongs within the quote marks, no?
... but then that's just me, in [my] quirks mode.
gspr | parent
Did the operators of HN mention anything about a reward structure for posting comments here? I'm sure you can see how that's still attractive to some.
bogzz | root | parent
I finally got the downvote powers yesterday, and I was irrationally pleased about that.

It's not even about votes, I don't even need votes. Whenever I write something that I am happy with, I read and reread it imagining I am reading it as a third person. Sometimes it forces me to rework my arguments. I wouldn't write to convey my ideas through a chatbot. And that's what this post is about-- killing the internet and with it decimating any audience you might have accrued if you had something to say and you published it on a website.