AI May Fatally Wound Web's Ad Model, Warns Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee warns that AI may disrupt the web's ad model, and the HN community reacts with a mix of acknowledgment and optimism about the potential outcome.

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JohnFen

2 months ago

> The multibillion-dollar advertising model that has underpinned the internet economy could “fall apart” due to the rise of generative artificial intelligence, according to the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Well, then, at least one good thing might result from all this.

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