The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can’t afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

  • randomdeadguy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers,

    You used these terms “legitimate” and “fight back” but I’m not sure they’re being used correctly. These websites would rather pump more ads into a single page than have a coherent user experience. If a bot saves us that trouble, then that’s just Free Enterprise™ working again, just that it isn’t in your favor this time. You’re a frustrated member of the working class like most of us, and it’s okay to be upset or angry and I’m glad you shared your opinion.