AI x social platforms

Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value from the relationship -- as seen in efforts to force intermediation like AMP, and now AI, where sites get drastically reduced traffic in exchange for nothing at all.

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I am more inclined to the argument that artificial intelligence is, rather than an imaginative agent, part of a lineage of cultural technologies that have allowed us to encode and access the intelligence of other humans across generations, just as internet search and libraries and print and the writing system have, just as language itself has.