I've come to the conclusion that it is a normal, extremely useful, dramatic improvement over web 1.0. It's going to

1) obsolete search engines powered by marketing and SEO, and give us paid search engines whose selling points are how comprehensive they are, how predictable their queries work (I miss the "grep for the web" they were back when they were useful), and how comprehensive their information sources are.

2) Eliminate the need to call somebody in the Philippines awake in the middle of the night, just for them to read you a script telling you how they can't help you fix the thing they sold you.

3) Allow people to carry local compressed copies of all written knowledge, with 90% fidelity, but with references and access to those paid search engines.

And my favorite part, which is just a footnote I guess, is that everybody can move to a Linux desktop now. The chatbots will tell you how to fix your shit when it breaks, and in a pedagogical way that will gradually give you more control and knowledge of your system than you ever thought you were capable of having. Or you can tell it that you don't care how it works, just fix it. Now's the time to switch.

That's your free business idea for today: LLM Linux support. Train it on everything you can find, tune it to be super-clippy. Charge people $5 a month. The AI that will free you from their AI.

Now we just need to annihilate web 2.0, replace it with peer-to-peer encrypted communications, and we can leave the web to the spammers and the spies.

"everybody can move to a Linux desktop now"

People use whatever UI comes with their computer. I don't think that's going to change.