The whole point of any technology has to be human flourishing, not stockholder profit. The disconnect has been in place for a while and exponentially accelerating - it has to be sorted out asap. Something is going to break here.
@xactceo@rand_longevity The whole point of any technology has to be human flourishing, not stockholder profit. The disconnect has been in place for a while and exponentially accelerating - it has to be sorted out asap. Something is going to break here.
@ZackPolanski@LostitNft@gabriel_zucman Q. If GDP goes up 5x from here (assuming the AI optimists are right). What’s the GDP per capita for the median person?
A. The same as it is today.
@Telegraph Can someone please explain to me the difference between length and height. And then as a follow up question - what the fuck is going on in the world?
The UKs Competiton and Markets Authority’s move gives publishers more control over how their content is used by AI systems.
That’s probably a good thing.
But it also creates a fascinating dilemma.
Opt out of AI summaries and recommendation systems…
Or participate in the new layer of discovery that is forming right now.
Because this isn’t simply a debate about traffic.
It’s a debate about visibility.
For 25 years visibility largely meant:
→ rankings
→ clicks
→ traffic
Today visibility increasingly means:
→ recommendations
→ trusted pathways
→ AI-mediated discovery
→ resolution
That’s why publishers, brands and businesses are being pulled in two directions at once.
Protect the old model.
Or participate in the new one.
The challenge is that the transition is happening faster than many people realise.
Google trained the internet around clicks.
AI systems are increasingly training it around confidence.
And confidence is becoming the new distribution mechanism.
That’s the shift I think many people still underestimate.
I think that’s where the conversation is heading now. Not “SEO vs AI.”
But:
“What does visibility mean when the click is no longer the primary unit of value?”
That’s the question hiding underneath all of these CMA discussions.