No, but thanks for asking. The rabbit hole still goes far further.
Ghostarchive is apparently blocked from The Atlantic, and other archive options aren’t friendly to VPNs, so I’m afraid I can’t provide an archive link.
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The internet is growing more hostile to humans… TO READ THIS STORY, SIGN IN OR START A FREE TRIAL.
I’ll give them this: They certainly stayed on brand.
At least it still loads if you turn javascript off.
How anyone uses the web without NoScript baffles me, but people still use Chrome, too, so I don’t think I’m in the mainstream in terms of my internet use,
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
This process has been happening since ChatGPT was released. And it’ll only get worse.
And when are those corporations get that people hate this sort of system? Ask Clippy.
It happened long before chatgpt. Subredditsimulator was touted as a “fun game” at first but it was really a testing ground for bot devs. That goes back to like 2016, 6 years before chatgpt.
Openai was established 2015 though, some of their team was probably already shitting up the internet by then
One might argue that OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention. Clippy feels quaint. Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?
OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.
Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over “his” precious data (i.e. users’) + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.
Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?
Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then “if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick”, then on how you don’t really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it’s the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren’t really yours.
[Sorry for the rambling.]
Hey! I designed some of those '90s newspapers!
Reddit ended like two years ago.
Yep. Which is when I came here. =)
So you’re the one who ended it. Wow.
You’re gonna need to stay away from 6flags and the Georgia aquarium kthx.
… =(((
Ironic coming from a site that expects me to pay to read that
fingers crossed
Well if they keep banning all the humans arbitrarily then all that will be left is bots anyway.
And also that serfdom (reddit) must fall.
Finally.
