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"Maybe we will start going out again."

That is the eventual outcome. The question is how much havoc so-called "tech" companies can wreak before we get there. They have lots of money to burn. This could take a while. The environmental costs are enormous.

We are now at the "They have copied all our output, chopped it into tokens and are regurgitating it back to us" stage.

The internet is more than the web. Perhaps the web must be sacrificed to free ourselves from these cretinous intermediaries.