Artificial intelligence will affect all areas of technology in the near future, and short links are no exception.
First of all, it is a fight against scammers who shorten links to deceive users. A smart filter of dangerous links based on artificial intelligence will solve this problem. It will help to detect fraudulent shortened links in time and warn the user about the danger. This will really be an important step in protecting personal data. Artificial intelligence can analyze a shortened link and preview the page where the user of the service is redirected.
Also, in the future, automatic generation of short links based on artificial intelligence technologies is possible. Based on the context, short links can be created that will be better perceived by the user, and therefore will be more successful. More readable and simpler short links attract the audience and cause more trust than shortened links with a set of letters, symbols and numbers.
It is worth considering that technologies are constantly developing, and more and more Internet users have begun to use voice assistants. Therefore, the relevance of short links may be reduced. The Internet audience is increasingly using voice commands and QR codes to search for information.
But QR codes with support for dynamic links will become even more popular thanks to artificial intelligence. They allow you to change the URL without replacing the code itself and automatically select the QR design, improving readability.
Short links also have competitors, for example, Web3 and blockchain technologies, which in the near future will be more in demand than short links. Therefore, it is quite difficult to say how long short links will be at the peak of popularity.
But what can be said for sure is that traditional short links will not disappear anywhere. They will only become safer for users and smarter. Of course, their alternatives will be actively developed, but they will not be able to displace the need for regular short links. Shortening services that can integrate artificial intelligence capabilities into their work will definitely win and gain more popularity than those services that ignore this opportunity. Therefore, only the future will show how artificial intelligence will affect the development of shortening technology and what opportunities users will have for shortening long URLs.