Instead of displaying links, Arc Search's “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. Critics say that's a problem.
  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    How does it help creators? Without them there is no web…” After all, if a web browser sucked out all information from web pages without users needing to actually visit them, why would anyone bother making websites in the first place

    This reminds me of when Mozilla was 0.9 and the web was just taking the baton from Gopher.

    When Ben suggests there would be no web without monetization, he seems to forget WHEN HE WAS THERE before the sellout.