The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI / Maggie Appleton
In this 45 minute talk Maggie Appleton explains the "dark forest theory of the web": How ads, trackers, clickbait, and predatory behaviours turn the public web into a hostile place for humans. She sketches how generative AI will accelerate this even more, what possible futures this might bring and even gives some advice how to work with AI reasonably. So many insights and great thinking, well worth the time: