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Is stuff online worth saving?

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127 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 17 Dec 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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impure ◴[21 Dec 24 17:53 UTC] No.42481078[source]▶
The rise of LLM’s has really devalued saving stuff online. What is the point of saving an article if I could just ask ChatGPT to created it and would probably do a pretty good job? It’s still worth keeping notes and stuff that may be hard to find but the majority of things online can easily be reproduced and are not worth saving.
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1. vouaobrasil ◴[21 Dec 24 18:00 UTC] No.42481105[source]▶
I think you are right. But I think the answer goes deeper: we have encouraged a culture where the most supported information is also the most superficial. The essence of individual experience itself has long been discouraged on the web in favour of SEO and the trashy news and the trivial.

So the fact that ChatGPT can replace much of the web actually says less about the marvel of ChatGPT and more about the lack of anything really worthwhile because the profound just happens to be the least economically valuable.