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# In which AI kills the human Web, or at least its spirit
- URL: https://journal.jatan.space/in-which-ai-kills-the-human-web-or-at-least-its-spirit/
- Published: 2025-05-14T14:14:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-14T14:14:09.000Z
- Author: Jatan

- Here’s a [depressing roundup](https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/) 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](https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/) from people responding to AI by closing the very doors that keep things open.
- Next up, from [AI in search is a trap](https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/03/ai-take-a-guess/):

> 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](https://www.theverge.com/news/634345/cloudflare-ai-labyrinth-web-scraping-bots-training-data)