But they still contribute to google's monopoly over web standards.

What's preventing GPT-based bots to earn karma by writing real-looking comments?

The future of the internet really seems like a dark one...

Interesting, it was a variation of embrace, extend, extinguish, without the extend part.

In a way, I think it happened to the entire internet. Look at browsers today, web development (that one might be controversial, but I think big techs somewhat forced bloated frameworks to be the standard way to create websites), video streaming, etc.

Why do I get a bad feeling about it? I hope wikipedia remains the same after that.

Besides... they ask so desperately for donations, so it makes me wonder if the project can be sustainable.

Maybe I'm overthinking stuff, let's see how it goes.

Exactly. There are possibly leaked data that could expose users in there.