YouTube announced two new experimental generative AI features today. Premium subscribers can soon try AI-generated comment summaries organized by topic, and a chatbot that answers questions about videos.
At this point why would you watch the video when you can have a shitty AI summary of the whole thing. Great idea.
That’s because platforms as a paradigm have failed. Their Achilles’ heel has been found, end of story.
Not only in the Web, IRL too. The world is going to be P2P (which is the same as imperial, because an empire is a P2P network united by philosophy, I think I’ve even seen some passage by Marcus Aurelius with this general idea). Call me mad or just scroll further if this looks nuts.