Re: The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta …

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:43:00 -0000 (UTC), Nick wrote:

The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta

The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily
for the better.

By Matteo Wong

A car that accelerates instead of braking every once in a while is not
ready for the road. A faucet that occasionally spits out boiling water
instead of cold does not belong in your home. Working properly most of
the time simply isn’t good enough for technologies that people are
heavily reliant upon. And two and a half years after the launch of
ChatGPT, generative AI is becoming such a technology.

Even without actively seeking out a chatbot, billions of people are now
pushed to interact with AI when searching the web, checking their email,
using social media, and online shopping. Ninety-two percent of Fortune
500 companies use OpenAI products, universities are providing free
chatbot access to potentially millions of students, and U.S. national-
intelligence agencies are deploying AI programs across their workflows.

When ChatGPT went down for several hours last week, everyday users,
students with exams, and office workers posted in despair: “If it doesnt
come back soon my boss is gonna start asking why I havent done anything
all day,” one person commented on Downdetector, a website that tracks
internet outages. “I have an interview tomorrow for a position I know
practically nothing about, who will coach me??” wrote another. That same
day—June 10, 2025—a Google AI overview told me the date was June 18,
2024.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/06/ai-janky-web/683228/

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ChatGPT Is Turning the Internet Into Plumbing

What does life online look like filtered through a bot?
By Damon Beres

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/openai-axel-springer-partnership-content/676340/

There is a tension at the heart of ChatGPT that may soon snap. Does the
technology expand our world or constrain it? Which is to say, do AI-
powered chatbots open new doors to learning and discovery, or do they
instead risk siloing off information and leaving us stuck with unreliable
access to truth?

Earlier today, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, announced a partnership with
the media conglomerate Axel Springer that seems to get us closer to an
answer. Under the arrangement, ChatGPT will gain the capacity to present
its users with “summaries of selected global news content” published by
the news organizations in Axel Springer’s portfolio, which includes
Politico and Business Insider. The details are not altogether clear, but
the announcement indicates that when you query ChatGPT, the bot will be
able to spin up responses based on Axel Springer stories, accompanied by
links to the stories themselves. Likewise, material from Axel Springer
publications will be used as training data for OpenAI, advancing the
company’s products—which may have already consumed something like the
entire internet.

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