I don't think it's besides the point at all. The Ars Technica article is an exact example of what you go on to talk about for the rest of the comment: the public internet as we knew it is dead and gone. Not in the future, it is already gone. When so-called journalists are outsourcing their job to LLM spam, that's a pretty clear indicator that the death knell has been tolled. The LLMs have taken over everything. HN is basically dead, too. I've gotten some accounts banned by pointing it out, but the majority of users here are unable to recognise spam and upvote LLM-generated comments routinely. Since people can't be bothered to learn the signs, we're surrendering the entirety of the internet to being LLM output that outnumbers and buries human content by 100:1.