Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. Critics say that's a problem.
  • sanguine_artichoke@midwest.socialEnglish
    28·
    2 years ago

    This is what I wondered about a few months ago when people were saying that ChatGPT was a ‘google killer’. So we just have ‘AI’ read websites and sum them up, vs. visiting websites? Why would anyone bother putting information on a website at that point?

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      28·
      2 years ago

      We are barreling towards this issue. StackOverflow for example has crashing viewer numbers. But an AI isn’t going to help users navigate and figure out a new python library for example, without data to train on. I’ve already had AIs straight up hallucinate about functions in R that actually don’t exist. It seems to happen primarily in the newer libraries, probably with fewer posts on stackexchange about them

  • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    Thank you to Arc for reminding me how much I enjoy browsing the internet and its many unique pages — these soulless generated results are the opposite of what I want.

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 years ago

      More and more of the Internet is being ai generated, so you’ll get to choose from a soulless summary or soulless SEO spam.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    How does it help creators? Without them there is no web…” After all, if a web browser sucked out all information from web pages without users needing to actually visit them, why would anyone bother making websites in the first place

    This reminds me of when Mozilla was 0.9 and the web was just taking the baton from Gopher.

    When Ben suggests there would be no web without monetization, he seems to forget WHEN HE WAS THERE before the sellout.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      13·
      2 years ago

      Well people who make content are already suffering for a collapse of ad prices. News sites are shutting down left and right. Not everything is about money, but they need revenue or external support to continue operating.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        43·
        2 years ago

        People who make content for money are suffering from a collapse in ad prices. There are people who make content because they enjoy making and sharing content.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          That’s not what we’re talking about… we’re talking about news. Real news, with investigative journalism costs money. You need to pay for people to be on the ground, travel expense, etc.

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    • We create WWW, where everyone can freely put things on and discuss anything.

    • Oh no! But what about the profits?

    • We create this summarize tool to quickly get knowleadge without always needing to peek deeper into text.

    • Oh no! But what about the profits?

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      It’s not about profit. It’s about being compensated for one’s hard work which was appropriated without permission by giant corporations

      • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Lesson #1 on the Internet.

        Put something on it, expect it to be there forever. You never own whatever you put out there. Both text, pictures nor video.

        Maybe companies should realise this too.