[runako]

> Websites may go back to being simply labors of love.

The situation may be even worse. Back in the labor of love era, at least webmasters could get feedback from readers. In the LLM era, readers may not even know that the site exists. Without feedback/community, the overall quality of those sites will decrease over time.

[Andrex]

I've been mulling over your comment for a few days now.

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.