Heat death of the internet | Gregory Bennett

Perhaps the definition of a "lolsob" micro-essay on the state of the internet in 2024.Β 

On the usefulness of search engines:

The first page of Google results are links to pages that have scraped other pages for information from other pages that have been scraped for information. All the sources seem to link back to one another. There is no origin.

On the helpfulness of AI:

Your coworker sends you a PowerPoint pack to support a presentation you are giving to the executive committee, but you can’t make heads or tails of it. You call them over Zoom and they tell you they used ChatGPT to write it.

A little too personal:

Your Gmail is approaching storage capacity.

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