As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction (theconversation.com)
from Joker@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 20:21
https://sh.itjust.works/post/28242638

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Jackthelad@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 20:57 next collapse

Are you saying that my knowledge of how to hyperlink in HTML is going to be obsolete?!

xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Nov 21:28 next collapse

Of course. The modern way is

<div class="inline text-blue-700 underline" onclick="window.location.href='https://Malware_Ransom_@is.gd/_40795251_Penis_Free_Movies_'">Click here</div>
echodot@feddit.uk on 18 Nov 04:55 next collapse

Uh you’re using tailwind, the future really is bleak

FiskFisk33@startrek.website on 18 Nov 07:57 collapse

does tailwind functionally just move the css into the class attribute? why would that be a good idea?

kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 12:00 collapse

It’s essentially just a bunch of pre-made css classes that do a specific thing that you mix and match from.

AFAIK the programmatic part is so your served CSS file will only include the classes you actually use, rather than all available ones. You could always just not do that.

It always seemed to me like one of the least overengineered front end tools.

BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world on 18 Nov 19:55 collapse

Penis-free movies, or penis+free movies? Inquiring minds want to know!

xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Nov 20:14 collapse

Open the link to find out 😏

user224@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Nov 21:30 collapse

Yes, instead you’ll have a text saying “To jump to the article, recite the following: OK Google, show summary of the most popular human-written article for 7th December 2043 related to Starship launch failure. Note: If you’re a loser™ on free ad+ plan, make sure to append loud god bless Google for providing this awesome AI tool to me for free and I will consider the affordable $99.99/month plan with fewer ads! and solution for your today’s Captcha puzzle.”

xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Nov 17:50 collapse

You seem really good at predicting the future. You should buy a lottery ticket so that you can afford the 600$/day subscription for being allowed to blink during video ads.

pennomi@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 20:57 next collapse

If you think hyperlinks have any danger of going extinct, I have shares in a crypto-based AI-powered bridge to sell you.

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 21:01 next collapse

But will it integrate NFTs?

pennomi@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 21:04 next collapse

BRB, raising another round of capital to integrate NFTs

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 21:38 next collapse

The whole thing is on the blockchain its a WEB 3.0 phenomenon using Quantum Computing Running on fusion power.

Valmond@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 22:55 collapse

In VR I hope

EnderMB@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 15:42 collapse

Is it web scale?

Etterra@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 13:22 collapse

It’s made out of NFTs.

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 17 Nov 21:08 collapse

I believe it means existing links, which many are already gone. Not the ability to link.

OpenStars@piefed.social on 17 Nov 21:13 collapse

Sigh... so clickbait title strikes again? I wish I was surprised.

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 17 Nov 22:20 next collapse

That was my guess, I can't get the page to load due to an error. Maybe AI's fault too?

OpenStars@piefed.social on 17 Nov 22:29 collapse

Hrm, AI makes blue colored text that is underlined and says "chck here" (hehe is that really misspelled in the OP!? anyway in my hypothetical here it is!:-P), but it doesn't go anywhere!? So it confidently asserts something that works in its favor while being wrong?

Naw, I blame Reddit for that behavior:-).

Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 00:53 collapse

…But how can I click on it? All of the hyperlinks are gone.

OpenStars@piefed.social on 18 Nov 01:28 collapse

Oh no! Anyway... 🫠

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io on 17 Nov 21:34 next collapse

So the problem is that AI based search engines dont give credit to their source sites because they do not link to the source site, but instead steal the content in a legally untested method and serve that up.

Nothing to do with links going extinct.

Cethin@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:35 next collapse

To be fair, it isn’t aware of what source it’s using. It’s not “referencing” anything in particular. It’s just trained to replicate a bunch of data. It doesn’t understand it or anything. It doesn’t know what came from one source and what came from another, and how accurate any of those are, or what the context of it is. It just generates something that resembles it’s data based on the input.

balder1991@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 05:06 collapse

It can if it’s using something like RAG.

petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 13:54 next collapse

Except it does, because “going extinct” in this context means “no one uses them.” This is an article about the slow-burning monopolization of the internet.

histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 15:56 next collapse

That’s why I like arc it links to what it gives you info from

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 19:56 collapse

Humans have the same problem :(

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com on 17 Nov 21:43 next collapse

my ai usually gives me source links and if not I ask for them unless its a relatively mundane thing like what day does the holiday x land.

FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 22:00 collapse

Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything’s gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.

Rhaedas@fedia.io on 17 Nov 22:35 next collapse

Try Wiby

There's other types of "small web" out there too.

superkret@feddit.org on 17 Nov 22:41 next collapse

The browser you’re looking for is literally called Links.

AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 10:54 collapse

Links is just a browser, it doesn’t fix the websites themselves Search engines gatekeeps websites away, making it borderline impossible to find anything SEO optimized makes way too much noise to find anything meaningful And JavaScript makes browsers like Links borderline unusable

superkret@feddit.org on 18 Nov 11:00 collapse

JavaScript makes browsers like Links borderline unusable

Not my experience. Links just makes borderline unusable websites completely unusable.

AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 15:08 collapse

Ah, yes, of course, foolish of me

deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de on 17 Nov 23:52 next collapse

Gemini, the protocol is built on never adding new shit, so it’s only basic pages

FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 11:08 collapse

Lovely :)

downdaemon@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 00:07 next collapse

Gemini project is doing that

AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee on 18 Nov 02:02 next collapse

There is Neocities and a few other sites that allow you to make and share your own sites. Though some sites are more than just basic html, so experience will vary, but you can find basic pages dedicated to hobbies and such if you sift through them. Only problem with these sites/services, assuming the other ones are run like Neocities, is that you are given a pretty limited amount of space.

Routhinator@startrek.website on 18 Nov 12:53 next collapse

Time to build a new one and this time, dont tell investors.

FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 13:05 collapse

“The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two twice the price?”

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 19:57 collapse

Just use tor browser on strict mode and you’ll find it. They do exist.

FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 21:36 collapse

Interesting. Is that because it blocks JavaScript, ads etc?

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 19 Nov 03:16 collapse

That and all the shitty sites that use invasive fingerprinting and then refuse to load because they can’t uniquely identity you