Ask HN: The most useful LLM agents aren't allowed?
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For all the talk about LLM training there has been little talk about how LLM inference could be a major countermeasure to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
in that an LLM can read the ads and the spam and scams so you don't have to.
One could argue that the T&C is an unfair use of power in that a site like Craiglist has a major impact on the community which does not get to "consent" to it in any meaningful way. For one thing, there is the two-sided market phenomenon which means that a zombie site like Craigslist can prevent new and better competitors from appearing [1]. There's also the fact that craigslist and a lot of marketplaces suck: like you reply to somebody's post and you have less than a 20% chance of getting a reply, right now people on my local NextDoor are complaining that people make posts advertising house cleaning services but when they write to them they don't even get a reply saying that the services aren't available.
[1] the counter to that is going to be Facebook Marketplace
I'm sure that we'll see analogous services starting up that actively embrace this sort of thing, and that would be good as well. Choice is a great thing.