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And let me know when the semantic web becomes successful after 2+ decades trying. The semantic web was always pretty much doomed to failure because it imposed a large cost on the content creator, who themselves get little benefit out of the structure.

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The bigger reason why it was a failure is not because it imposes a cost in terms of work on the content creator, it imposes a lack of control on the part of the party that considers themselves the 'owner' of the data. If every webpage that right now is plastered with ads and various junk to get you to subscribe/form a relationship/amplify the content would just be the structured data and a default way to render that data would be present in every browser then most content monetization strategies would fail. Follow the money, not the effort.

Nail in the head. But can you imagine what it would have been if hakia would have been a thing instead of the SEO-spam, ad-infested Web that Google and Co. gave us?

That's a hard question. I really have no idea, but I would have loved a browser that takes in structured data and displays it in a way that I control any day over the junk that the web has become.

> becomes successful after 2+ decades trying

Rich pro-ai argument.

Fair point. Still, the semantic web is dead because we already solved the problem with a better solution, which is open APIs.

The idea that everything would work great if only all of our data was structured and easily parseable everywhere just leads me to ask "Do you not interact with humans on a regular basis?"

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