Comment by themafia

> But in the real world, the Web is a pile of auto-generated and auto-assembled fragments of slop

There are parts of the web like that but your assertion seems to rely on this being universally true. It clearly and obviously isn't.

> Also in the real world, people are decisively choosing the AI-generated summaries and fevered imaginings.

Are they "decisively" choosing it if it's turned on by default? If it were actually opt-in then we could measure this. As it is I don't think you have any data to rely on when making this assertion.

> Not for everything, but web search -> URL -> page visit is becoming a declining percentage

The same web search companies that own AI models they're trying to sell? Do you not suspect there could be a few confounding variables in this analysis?

> except that automatic translation is really nice

Which we already had and has nothing to do with language models masquerading as "AI".

> is fine and dandy but ultimately pointless unless you have an alternative that doesn't require the entire world to cooperate in turning back the clock.

An alternative to what? Tab renaming? Bad article summaries? Weak search engine algorithms?