I dismay at the possibility of this happening. What’s the point of an internet at all if one company controls, filters, and governs our entire usage of it?
I understand an argument can be made that google is doing similar, but at least you can still search and end up on an actual site, rather than just play telephone via chatgpt. This concept is horrifying for so many reasons.
I agree with the fact that a monopolized web is not friendlier to anyone. But seeing the trajectories of tech companies in the past decade, the unfortunate north star is distribution and the relentless pursuit of it.
Even in that dire circumstance, I wish that the web versions keep up/are maintained, instead of being slowly deprecated, which happened for a lot of mobile-native versions of applications.
Going back to first principles, we need to recall that the internet is for the dissemination of cat pictures, and at the end of the day every technical and organizational change must be analyzed through the lens of its impact on the effective throughput of these pictures.
I understand an argument can be made that google is doing similar, but at least you can still search and end up on an actual site, rather than just play telephone via chatgpt. This concept is horrifying for so many reasons.