Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?

Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?The World Wide Web (Web) emerged as a new medium in the mid-1990s.It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989, but its exploding popularity was also enabled by the release of the Mosaic Web browser in 1993 and the Internet becoming commercially available in 1995.A communication revolution was launched.Roughly 30 years later, the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in Nov. 2022 launched another revolution.High-quality generation of natural-language text, defined as the hallmark of intelligence by Alan Turing in 1950, is suddenly widely available.I wonder, however, if the generative AI (GenAI) revolution will end up devouring the Web revolution.

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Communications of the ACM
Published
2025-08-18
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3749981
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14
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Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
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Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?

Moshe Y. Vardi
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Communications of the ACM
Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
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Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?

Moshe Y. Vardi
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Abstract

Will AI Destroy the World Wide Web?The World Wide Web (Web) emerged as a new medium in the mid-1990s.It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989, but its exploding popularity was also enabled by the release of the Mosaic Web browser in 1993 and the Internet becoming commercially available in 1995.A communication revolution was launched.Roughly 30 years later, the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in Nov. 2022 launched another revolution.High-quality generation of natural-language text, defined as the hallmark of intelligence by Alan Turing in 1950, is suddenly widely available.I wonder, however, if the generative AI (GenAI) revolution will end up devouring the Web revolution.

Communications of the ACMVol. 68(9)
Rice University (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 0%
Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
45.45
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