Conspicuously missing: why should I care?

I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.

▲ gwerbin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Like it or not I think "agents browsing the web" is the inevitable near-term future. Some agents will be malicious, many will not. In 2036, HN posters will be complaining about how such-and-such site only works with closed proprietary AI agents, and how their creaky old Mac M5 running Gemma 3 under Ollama can't browse the site properly because it doesn't follow the 2029 RFC XYZ for agent compatibility that nobody ever fully implemented.

	▲	embedding-shape 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure, lets say I eat up all of that and agree with you: How does this website help/not help? Agents already read HTML perfectly fine, saying "Well, you don't serve markdown so this obviously is bad for agents, you're only serving HTML" doesn't really feel like it's contributing anything either in protecting against malicious agents, or how the website only work for some agents but not others.
	▲	jacquesm 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I'm going to try to figure out how to make my websites as easy as possible to peruse for humans while making it as hard as possible to do the same for agents. There should be some way make the bots pay a price of admission while keeping it free for people.
	▲	_verandaguy 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This still doesn't really answer my question, though. This is like telling me my old blog posts can't be parsed by your regex. Like... yeah, no shit; I didn't build it for your regex. It's not the target audience. Plus, isn't the appeal of LLMs broadly that they can do somewhat-useful things with mostly-arbitrary input (if you ignore the risk of prompt injection)?

▲ bradleyankrom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Printed and mailed newsletters should make a comeback.

	▲	_verandaguy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You might be joking, but frankly, I wouldn't mind. Though this is undermined somewhat by stories like this one[0], where an AI runs a "slow life" store catering to a lifestyle that specifically tries to disconnect from technology. It's incredibly perverse. `[0] https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch`