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You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Endgame for the Open Web

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hansup 18h ago

@anildash Is it so black and white? Things are definitively changing in a big way. But isn't there a large playing field between full evil AI and no AI?

The AI hype is definitively super cringe, hilarious and dangerous in many ways. But radical opposition doesn't seem to be very helpful. In real life many of us do not have the privilige to say simply NO to AI.

Maybe not an endgame, but another level where we should try to keep on playing and deal with & tame any kind of new monster.

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@hans @anildash I dont agree
Like nazism and intolerance, it's a black and white issue. The moment you let LLMs and generative AI in a system, it will be misused and the system will decay, for the myriad of reasons we already know.