Well as long as people will be using tech monopolies products, alternatives will be underfunded and there will be AI development. No movement or article can stop it.
solving business problems by adding more buttons and input fields that go trough various processing pipes and spawn more infrastructure to compute results nobody needs
You can host ollama and open-webui on container. If you want to wire search you can connect open-webui to playwright (also container) and searxng (also container) and llm will search the web for answers
Commercial web over the years is slowly transforming from education and news into video entertainment platform, this is just next step. I hope AI slop will accelerate transition towards decentralized federated trust ring networks. I also hope it will destroy or at least largely damage current internet / cloud monopolies - google / meta / amazon / microsoft. Maybe public knowledge will be harmed but people will always find the way to pass information without slop.
Someone doesn't know what mockumentary or docufiction is. There were lots of fake videos way before AI. This is just amplification because of better accessibility.
The quality was always questionable in IT because of how projects are being managed. That's why you have consulting companies. The only difference you get from AI is companies trying to lower the wages and reduce costs to share profit with AI companies. Those tools bring no more value than hiring more junior / bootcamp level developers. The difference is from junior developer you can in a year or two get full team member but from AI you will get constraint amount of slop because it doesn't evolve.
Sid Meier only one who's name is before game title.