People make simple text websites → Google comes along and indexes all websites → People can freely and easily find information! → Google slowly perverts the incentives with ads → Websites replace simple text with complex UIs and paywalls → People can no longer easily find information → OpenAI indexes all these complex websites and turns them into simple text answers → People can freely and easily find information again! → OpenAI perverts the incentives with ads → OpenAI replaces simple text with complex UIs and paywalls → People can no longer easily find information.
People make simple text websites → Google comes along and indexes all websites → People can freely and easily find information! → Google slowly perverts the incentives with ads → Websites replace simple text with complex UIs and paywalls → People can no longer easily find information → OpenAI indexes all these complex websites and turns them into simple text answers → People can freely and easily find information again! → OpenAI perverts the incentives with ads → OpenAI replaces simple text with complex UIs and paywalls → People can no longer easily find information.
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