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OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web

This week OpenAI released a new offering called Operator. Operator is basically an AI agent that will browse the web for you. They weren't the first to do it...

Then those eventually became difficult to access because they wanted to monetize their content, so if you were like me you probably found yourself adding "reddit" to the end of every Google query to get real human data. Maybe I could post it on Google reviews, but is that service even going to exist when their content is being freely harvested by people who aren't even looking at it, just getting Operator to fetch it for them? I believe this pattern could continue, where we end up with two kinds of internet: Content that entertains, like YouTube, Netflix, some subreddits, will mostly remain the same - people want to point their eyeballs at that.

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