The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can’t afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    What I DO feel the need to respond to is the notion that we don’t need human writers anymore.

    I think we do need human writers. In my experience, though, the TLDR bot cuts thru the fluff. It’s like those recipe blogs that have to add “jump to recipe” button. That button exists because I don’t need 1,000 words about the author’s childhood. Sure, there are some people who do, but I don’t, and that option is great. Most other kinds of blogs/essays don’t have that. If there was a TLDR section, and then a “would you like to know more” after that, then the TLDR bot wouldn’t need to exist. Too many articles need to get to the damn point.