The saddest part is that this will lead to fewer and fewer people being willing to provide content: on the one hand, because they refuse to let billionaires exploit them; on the other hand, because the LLMs not only steal their content but also ensure that no one visits the websites that originally provided it anymore.

This illustrates just how parasitic “AI” models are: they even kill their own host.

I think this will have a very significant, very negative effect on humanity.

It’s a step backward for civilization, reminiscent of the days when the elites held a monopoly on knowledge.