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  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    12 days ago

    I’ve been saying this for some time now: AI is going to kill so many business models because it’s really great at creating summaries.

    You don’t even need a huge cloud-basrd AI! Local AI—running on your PC—can search the web, summarize the news (and Wikipedia articles), and perform similar tasks without a human ever visiting the site.

    It’s like having your own personal secretary that you can tell to go do stuff.

    I think it’s going to kill free search engines because it can go do a search on all of them at once in seconds and no human will ever see those ads.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      17·
      12 days ago

      I think it’s going to kill free search engines because it can go do a search on all of them at once in seconds and no human will ever see those ads.

      So sites will move to paywalls or aggresive WAFs and those LLMs will become useless at the same time succeeding in killing search engines leaving no viable alternatives.

      Already half the public internet is inaccessible without allowing to be heavily fingerprinted and be tracked just to prove you are a human user.

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        It’s possible that a huge number of sites that are currently free will turn to paywalls but that won’t make the local AI useless. You’ll just give it your login credentials for any sites you want it to search and it’ll do it’s thing (and no, captias don’t work with AI models… They’re only good at stopping basic crawlers).

    • merdaverse@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      If you think AI is going to stay without ads/subscriptions for much longer you’re not paying attention