In which AI kills the human Web, or at least its spirit

• Here’s a depressing roundup of how the bottomless greed of AI companies is utterly destroying the Web all of us grew up with. I’m furious.
• There’s also irony in the fact that open access publishing is under threat from people responding to AI by closing the very doors that keep things open.
• Next up, from AI in search is a trap:

You can get an LLMs to write an article, but if you care about little things like facts and truth, as I hope anyone reading this does, then you’re going to spend as much time fact-checking as you might have done writing. Thus, your time savings are minimal, if any, for a worse product.

In this depressing death of the human Web, there’s at least one silver lining: Using AI to throttle AI