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The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta. The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.
The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.
Ninety-two percent of Fortune 500 companies use OpenAI products, universities are providing free chatbot access to potentially millions of students, and U.S. national-intelligence agencies are deploying AI programs across their workflows. When ChatGPT went down for several hours last week, everyday users, students with exams, and office workers posted in despair: “If it doesnt come back soon my boss is gonna start asking why I havent done anything all day,” one person commented on Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages. At the start of the AI boom, there were plenty of train wrecks—Bing’s chatbot telling a tech columnist to leave his wife, ChatGPT espousing overt racism —but these were plausibly passed off as early-stage bugs.
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