That's just too bad. I've been creating web services for free since 2000 and just gave up once I realized that the web is innately commercial and bad for users. No matter what I do is just at odds with the fact that I have to host the content myself when the users could easily just mirror it with something like bittorrent but all we lack is the 10 lines of code for that infrastructure to be usable in the common user's flow. Plus the moment that happens big corpo and govo will cry CP and copyright and there mere act of using a computer will become strictly regulated and file hosting will be illegal. Later on, I spent months creating high quality articles in niche technical subjects, but quickly stopped as I realized that I don't want to contribute to the web anymore. When a real medium for grownups (both because the regulation on the web is bogus and dystopic addressing childish concerns with no bearing in reality, and because the web is a terrible amateur protocol) appears I will publish on that.
Information should be retrievable without all kinds of nonsense personalization and ads, and in milliseconds, not 10 seconds. The 99.999% of web content made between 2000-now is not whatever virtuous content you claim to have struggled to create, but a bunch of bloat that just wastes the user's time, and most of the time it's not even a good answer to the question, but just the exact same paraphrased answer from several other commercialized blogs. Your doomsday scenario here would be the perfect justice, and you will be one of the _very few_ innocent victims of it. Of course it won't be so simple, anyone like Google would find a way to make the user experience insufferable. I don't see a place for monetization on the future web, it will just be a bunch of people exchanging information, like where are the bad guys with guns and should I avoid going there. AI can't answer that because you don't know its sources, rather you exchange information with your trusted peers and make judgements based on that. This isn't a money concerning thing, it's just people exchanging info for info as the internet was originally intended to be.
Information should be retrievable without all kinds of nonsense personalization and ads, and in milliseconds, not 10 seconds. The 99.999% of web content made between 2000-now is not whatever virtuous content you claim to have struggled to create, but a bunch of bloat that just wastes the user's time, and most of the time it's not even a good answer to the question, but just the exact same paraphrased answer from several other commercialized blogs. Your doomsday scenario here would be the perfect justice, and you will be one of the _very few_ innocent victims of it. Of course it won't be so simple, anyone like Google would find a way to make the user experience insufferable. I don't see a place for monetization on the future web, it will just be a bunch of people exchanging information, like where are the bad guys with guns and should I avoid going there. AI can't answer that because you don't know its sources, rather you exchange information with your trusted peers and make judgements based on that. This isn't a money concerning thing, it's just people exchanging info for info as the internet was originally intended to be.