The thing that's mostly wrong with AI summaries is that people don't click through to the page the summary summarizes. So those sites don't get ad revenue.

Don’t ad blockers have a similar effect?

There are summaries of articles on lemmy, just not generated by LMMs. What's the difference?

Why the fuck would I want my link aggregator to have a leaderboard?

People competing for fake internet points is already driving some of the worst patterns we're seeing on the social web. Imagine putting that shit front and center.

Not exactly. People don't click on ads when ads are blocked. But ad aggregation companies get paid in a couple of different ways. Click through is a big one, but ad impressions (eyeballs that supposedly viewed an ad) are also a thing. And impressions pay, just not as well as clickthroughs. Ad companies haven't stopped paying aggregates for ad space. That's why ads on paid services have gotten more egregious. It's not because they aren't getting paid. It's because they want both.

For what it's worth, you can (and some do) pay for subscriptions to websites or services on the internet. But nobody is paying ad aggregation companies with the intent of seeing ads regardless of the reality.

Also, ad blocking as a whole is for security as much as it is for quality of life. Ad aggregation companies have a habit of taking the money and asking questions only when they get complaints (if then) and as a result, they don't leave users who want to protect themselves another choice.

Of course, there's also the fact that one way or another the web can't just be free. Someone somewhere has to pay for the resources that make it run and the upkeep it requires.

Depends. I often click on articles based on the summary because the article link is usually posted before the summary is. Sometimes the summary doesn't really explain enough for me to understand. Other times I want to know more. But when you use chatgpt to answer a query usually you don't leave that page in order to get more information and that's the problem I'm pointing out. Usually you don't even have a link to where the information in the summary came from either (my experience is limited to Google's Gemini, which I don't use, but which for a while was front and center on any query I typed in).

Becuase the app is in alpha lol, its janky everywhere, has no settings or customizability uet, cant even make communities yet, ill give them the benefit of the doubt that you can turn them off or auto hide them

So not only was the AI put front and center, it was also put in first?!

I've looked at plenty of alpha software before, and I've seen plenty of incomplete features. I understand that one has to give an unfinished product leeway. But devs do not simply accidentally add a whole feature into an app. Or if this was somehow all a huge coincidental mistake, they made a massive PR blunder.

All valid points, and he base truth around all this is there's no way this is the original Digg anyway. Someone bought the name rights and have Diggs' corpse strung up with a painted on smile.

Well you see there's gonna be a digg store where all your diggs can get you a virtual hat for your diggdug Ai virtual toon man guy.

Because those shitty patterns make the platform valuable. It's about creating investor value, end user be damned.

Guess this particilar use of ai just isnt an issue for me, I personally have more problems with lemmys use of generative ai and hyping it up

summaries are a non issue, stealing other ppls work to pass of on your own is

How's mbin doing, lately? I switched (back) to Lemmy when kbin shuttered and haven't kept up with it.

Cool how?

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Is anyone else amazed that digg just won’t die? How many other popular sites have come and gone, and yet, digg is always lurking in the shadows.

My mom still maintains her Angelfire site. MySpace still exists. There are historical cities that are ghost towns of what they once were - yet the cities exist. Once you reach a particular space of cultural ubiquity, it gets hard to disappear.

I also understand that reddit is more of a cuprit when it comes to a zero click internet, and thats because ppl summarizing in comments and no one clicking the article. The ai summary is shorter then a human one would be, its literally one sentence, summary already exists discouraging a human summary so ppl click the link for more information. I bet ppl are more likely to click links with a tldr than they are with a reddit top comment summarizing with sources and whatever else

If it stars out enshittified then you never had anything to enshittify, just plain shit.

I'm pretty sure I read the other day that it's the original founders of Digg (Kevin Rose) who bought back the corpse and are leading this with VC funding.

Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg | TechCrunch

Digg is now back under the ownership of original founder Kevin Rose, who is joined by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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