The Web Fills Up And Empties Out

Good Morning,Two numbers today, and they belong together. Traffic to the ten biggest US news sites is down by a third in two years (Press Gazette). More than a third of web pages published since ChatGPT launched show signs of machine authorship (TechCrunch). The open web is filling with writing nobody asked for and emptying of the readers who used to justify the rest.Here’s what that does downstream: a hoax claiming the Tang Dynasty never existed is picking up genuine believers on the Chin