[mrmarket]

Author here. I got eaten up, lol. But thanks to those who recommended Gemini, this is exactly what I was looking for.

For the record: I know starting from scratch and creating a new way for machines to transfer information is nearly impossible and certainly redundant/not worth the squeeze. But everyone is right to call that out, lol. I was feeling frustrated by the pervasiveness of AI slop and just fired this one off. It was the equivalent of vowing to go completely off grid after seeing one too many ads in a doctor's office. I was basically fantasizing about buying time before those with a profit motive showed up. Of course, we will always run into the same problem whenever a commons materializes. It's our nature, after all.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions I did get, though. And appreciated the vast majority of the discourse here.

In the interest of transparency: I deleted the stuff about stripping the internet to the studs, lol. But I will own that I suggested it. It's just perhaps a distraction to my true point, which was that the beautiful internet experiment is in a state of vast humiliation.