AI descriptions

Anyone who has been rickrolled or jumped through hyperspace to a planet that has been destroyed by a giant laser will tell you this: it’s nice to look before you leap. Since the Outer Web is basically a large network of hypertext leaps, we try to give people a good idea of whats on the other end of their click. So both Navicomputer and Explore show the linked page’s title and description like this:

Arrakis IRL
A gallery of my August trip to the Pismo Dunes.

Neither the internet nor the Outer Web requires either of these fields, so for pages without an RSS or Open Graph description, we’ve started adding LLM-generated descriptions:

Exonematology
[AI summary] This post speculates on the viability of populating Tatooine from the Star Wars series with sandworms from the Dune series. It discusses the impact on civic centers, moisture farming, and intergalactic trade.