Ask Lemmy

Honestly, while I can still get information (of any kind) I won't quit, just use it less. At the very least, I'll use it to download DRM free music, movies, books, and TV shows and consume them offline locally.

when it quits bring entertaining.

It's utility for the original purpose, communication without limits, (or checking for coffee) is being diminished, and at some point, ill stop using it for that. But as long as there are jokes and titties, it will still be a source of entertainment.

Not as long as there are videogame wikis.

I suppose it's like with the boiling frog syndrome. Temperature increases gradually. But there is no such point when we all jump out.

Maybe the internet already was tainted before generative AI, with all the tracking, selling of userdata, big soulless services, the attention economy.... Maybe that was it and we're way past it already?

I grew up on the intent, I live on the internet, I die on the internet. Every website eventually dies or enshits and gets replaced. Same old song, new fully automated singer.

Outside is not a world of hope, happiness, and belonging.

I don’t care what’s AI generated and what isn’t tbh. Cool pictures are still cool pictures no matter who made them. Funny videos are still funny videos. A someone who’s smart enough to not believe everything they read on the internet, fake articles etc don’t bother me.

I'm an out of work web developer, so in theory if I starve to death then I'll have to quit the internet.

It sounds more like you are referring to the web: I'll probably keep visiting until there's nothing worth visiting anymore. Then I guess I'll find other stuff to read.

I don't think you can take for granted most things will be ai generated. Why are you? Old or something?

Never, I have to work with it. Maybe when I retired I'll restrict everything to RSS feeds.

Heat death of the universe.

It already is. Every site either serves economic interests or is so full of outrage-addicted doomers that it's useless trying to find something engaging and enjoyable anymore. It's time to come up for air irl, touch some grass, and work on finding solutions to a dead internet. See you on the other side

“soulless”,

That would be nice: as soon as cats and celebrities become "connection to humans will be lost", useless people will leave. Influencers, corporations and bots will follow. And we, engineers, will again have a place to discuss our boring "soulless" things among us, engineers. Without CoCs, hysterical artists-vegans-SJW-whatever.

Can't wait until it happens.