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Google started out noble, but was poisoned by its own success and by extension, poisoned everything it touched. The web, as a platform, is nearly dead. Walled garden phone apps are almost completely dominate. The revenue model is on such shaky ground that almost all remaining websites either went clickbait with a pox of ads or paywall. I would not be able to list more than 5 websites that survived Ads and SEO, perhaps only Wikipedia.

These LLMs will be the end. They will capture enough of the user attention that the few remaining ad supported sites will be wiped out. “Content”, that low quality grist every site is filled with to capture users for a few seconds before they click on will become worthless, no different than the low quality crap the LLMs spew out.

Finally, we will stop trying to keep the bloated corpse of the web alive and will move on. It will be the death of a dream. At least we can all let go and focus our energies on a new dream. Whatever that dream is, I hope high quality, human created art, knowledge, opinion and creativity is at the center of it.

>>dougmw+(OP)
I wish I could find something to disagree. If there is any hope it ultimately comes from the fact that the technologies we talk about are at various stages of commoditization. Maybe at some point the gap between what-is and what-can-be will be so stark that it will set in motion positive forces that are currently dormant.