https://web.archive.org/web/20240923073444/https://www.trend-mill.com/p/i-kinda-hate-the-internet-now

Stephen Moore rants about the internet he does not like. Incl the deterioration of search, the adtech, growth hacking for engagement etc. Now no longer human created even but generated slop from bots. Calls it a addictive dopamine machine without joy.

paywalled article.

Wordfreq is shutting down because LLM output on the web is polluting its data to the point of uselessness. It would track longitudinally the change in use of words across a variety of languages. Vgl human centipede epistomology in [[Talk The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]] by [[Maggie Appleton]]