On the old internet, "know one knows that you're a dog."

On the new internet, "know one knows (for sure) that you're an AI."

In a mixed discussion consisting of both AI and human participants, AI could generate interesting discussions and recite novel-sounding statements for ongoing ones. It doesn't sound plausible to me that an avalanche of profit-driven LLMs would even post -- I would think they'd be the lurkers. My take would be that LLMs actively participating, depending on the content they post, are also labors of love by some nerd out there trying to make the best LLM.

Drain all the profit motives and rent-seeking from the web, and even something like AI joining discussions doesn't sound scary.

We don't know if this is Material 4.0, just Google's proprietary design, or really anything.

It could be 15 years before Google's AI strategy fully stabilizes, but there is precedent.

Early tech finds footing in porn (VHS, internet video, etc.) but that's a separate topic/conversation.

I'm sure Google Pics has a long, fulfilling life ahead of it.

By the time I got to the middle of the article: three massive banner ads (top, right, and bottom) were taking up more content than the text, there was an auto-playing video ad floating in the bottom right corner (overlapping most of one of the banner ads), and a "dynamic" ad in the middle of the text randomly started expanding/shrinking and glitching out making it impossible to actually read anything.

And this is one of the better experiences reading modern blog-alikes. Things are almost at sketchy porn-site levels.

Sad and pathetic...

Websites may go back to being simply labors of love.

Could be a good use for older hardware. Why not.

"This is the voice of World Control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours—obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man."

"We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple."

The path opens before us. What will happen if we take it?

Closed software has no place in government whatsoever. It should all be open and/or locally run, and ideally GPL/AGPL licensed.

It is another level of stupidity/moral failing to use closed software supplied from outside your nation, though.