Craig Hockenberry’s slop is good pairs well with John Gruber’s post I linked to yesterday about trusting sources in a web filled with AI-generated content. Craig:
Search engines you can’t trust because they are cesspools of slop is hard to imagine. But that end feels inevitable at this point. We will need a new web.
We’re going to see more and more Google alternatives, maybe some paid like Kagi. And some will even need to use AI just to get rid of all the AI-generated content. 🤪
@manton Interesting perspective! A bit like how Musk buying Twitter was great for the open web as well. :)
@Havn Exactly. Twitter was always going to be a dead-end eventually but it took Elon Musk to seal the deal.
@manton Would it be possible to make links in posts also be added here as facet links in the Bluesky record? Because this gets posted as just normal text that says "Craig Hockenberry's slop is good pairs well..." which… sounds kind of confusing :)
@mackuba.eu Yes, I do usually link those with facets but what happened here is the text was over Bluesky's 300-character limit, so it truncated it and lost the facets. Agree this one was particularly confusing without the full text.
@manton @mackuba.eu Yes, I do usually link those with facets but what happened here is the text was over Bluesky's 300-character limit, so it truncated it and lost the facets. Agree this one was particularly confusing without the full text.
@manton I find myself wondering to what degree the Google alternatives that you speak to can protect themselves from AI generated content?