Stratscraps v167.
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Stratscraps v167.
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.
More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.
We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/
When Online Content Disappears
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But as the digital age drowns us in exponentially increasing rates of new content—most of which is trivial and ephemeral—it is becoming clear that almost everything more than a few years old gets buried by incoming content. This is a serious problem for the continuity of any civilization if most writing and ideas propagate laterally (from peer-to-p
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The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online s
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Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy i... See more
James Vincent • AI Is Killing the Old Web, and the New Web Struggles to Be Born
