At this point I think the only way forward is for enough like-minded people to sort of stake their claim on some semi-walled off portion of the internet and greatly limit access from swaths of IP addresses.
Sort of like web rings 2.0. Everyone, or enough people, will have to chip in on costs and provide either money or hardware.
There will have to be some sort of regulatory body with voting members.
To be ‘in’ the site has to abide by certain advertising restrictions and privacy agreements.
A decent use (finally) for llms would be to audit the private index and remove slop. I think we’re just at the beginning of what will be a resource hogging AI arms race.
It’s sort of what we’ve been trying to avoid since the beginning but it seems inevitable at this point.