{"id":83,"date":"2025-07-15T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/is-ai-killing-the-world-wide-web\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:31:08","slug":"is-ai-killing-the-world-wide-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/is-ai-killing-the-world-wide-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A.I. Killing the World Wide Web?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Economist<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As AI<\/small> changes how people browse, it is altering the economic bargain at the heart of the internet. Human traffic has long been monetised using online advertising; now that traffic is drying up. Content producers are urgently trying to find new ways to make AI<\/small> companies pay them for information. If they cannot, the open web may evolve into something very different.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe nature of the internet has completely changed,\u201d says Prashanth Chandrasekar, chief executive of Stack Overflow, best known as an online forum for coders. \u201cAI<\/small> is basically choking off traffic to most content sites,\u201d he says. With fewer visitors, Stack Overflow is seeing fewer questions posted on its message boards. Wikipedia, also powered by enthusiasts, warns that AI<\/small>-generated summaries without attribution \u201cblock pathways for people to access\u2026and contribute to\u201d the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This won't affect me. My writing is a labor of love. I don't try to make money from it. I don't need to. I've made mine. You could call me a "made man." I may, however, monetize my Substack<\/a>. It seems churlish to refuse the pledges that readers have kindly made.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Economist: As AI changes how people browse, it is altering the economic bargain at the heart of the internet. Human traffic has long been monetised using online advertising; now that traffic is drying up. Content producers are urgently trying to find new ways to make AI companies pay them for information. If they cannot, the open web … Continue reading “Is A.I. Killing the World Wide Web?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,109,7,35,110,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-blogging","category-substack","category-technology","category-web-tech","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}