民主和开放的互联网在阳光下消亡。

民主和开放的互联网在阳光下消亡。
Democracy and the open internet die in daylight

原始链接: https://heatherburns.tech/2025/10/22/democracy-and-the-open-internet-die-in-daylight/

《华盛顿邮报》现在向下载 PerplexityAI 的 Comet 浏览器（一款人工智能搜索引擎）的用户免费提供文章访问权限。这一举动受到批评，预示着新闻业的资金模式可能发生转变——从存在问题的广告技术系统转向依赖“代理人工智能”。作者表达了担忧，认为这是一种令人不安的交换：用一项损害隐私的技术（广告技术）换取另一项（专有的人工智能浏览器）。虽然承认新闻业目前面临财务困境，但他们认为这不是解决方案，而可能是一个有害的步骤。这项协议代表着一个令人担忧的“第一天”，标志着一个新时代，新闻获取将取决于采用特定的 AI 技术。

## 开放互联网与新闻业的侵蚀这个Hacker News讨论的核心是，公司越来越倾向于将数据收集和收入来源置于用户体验和开放的信息获取之上。讨论的起点是对看似不必要的应用程序要求——例如麦当劳的Monopoly游戏——的沮丧，这些要求迫使用户为了简单的奖励而分享数据。对话扩展到对现代商业实践的更广泛批评，这些实践受到股东对多种收入来源的需求驱动，包括监控和广告。人们对地方新闻业的衰落及其对民主问责制的影响表示担忧，同时也对影响媒体诚信的“虚荣项目”表示担忧。许多评论者建议需要替代的、P2P平台，优先考虑用户隐私和控制，抵制注意力的集中和货币化。然而，对于这些解决方案的可行性存在怀疑，考虑到现有的经济激励和实现广泛采用的难度。最终，这个帖子突显了人们对开放互联网的未来以及在公司控制力日益增强的情况下，民主制度健康状况日益增长的焦虑。

Obviously there have been many editorial changes at the formerly venerable Washington Post, a tawdry saga which I don’t intend to recap here.

What I do want to share is this, which I spotted yesterday during research.

A screen cap of the Washington Post’s site, offering free access to Post stories if you download the Comet browser from PerplexityAI. The two story masthead images in the background – a floor caked in mud and filth, and an American flag – are inadvertently perfect.

In other words – you get free access to news if you download PerplexityAI’s proprietary browser, which is built entirely around agentic AI.

*grinds teeth into powder*

Leaving aside the idea of access to any form of content being conditional on the use of a proprietary browser, which is a particularly horrid 1990s throwback, I’m going to call this day 0 of an experiment in shifting the funding model of journalism from adtech to agentic AI.

Journalism (or what’s left of it now) is in the state it’s in because of the adtech funding model. I don’t know what the solution is.

But it sure as fuck isn’t trading one privacy-obliterating technology for another, packaged as opportunity.

民主和开放的互联网在阳光下消亡。 Democracy and the open internet die in daylight

民主和开放的互联网在阳光下消亡。
Democracy and the open internet die in daylight