The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.
The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can’t afford to pay for actual content.
We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there’s a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc… so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.
If the articles didn’t
A. Have to hit a minimum word count so they use weird language and spend a great deal talking about nothing and
B. Didn’t wall more than the first paragraph off to subscribers
I wouldn’t need or want the summarization. But also mostly because I use an ad blocker anyway so the page is readable. If I didn’t have the adblocker, the page is usually so full of banners and full page ads that it’s impossible to read.