What Anil Dash thinks about AI writing

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Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999, formerly chief executive of Glitch and a board member of the Data & Society Research Institute. His 2012 essay "The Web We Lost" is one of the founding texts of the argument that the open web has been enclosed.

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1. 27 Mar 2026

   Our readingThe web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

   Their wordsAs publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.

   ↗Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com 3rd of 4 in this piece