AI agents could make the internet go dark
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-internet-dark-google-openai-anthropic-2025-1
AI agents could make the internet go dark
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-internet-dark-google-openai-anthropic-2025-1
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“2025 has been hailed as the year of [AI agents](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-jobs-board-ad-replacing-human-skills-2025-2)—personalized digital assistants that can interact with users, do research, gather information, curate content, and ultimately anticipate your needs and get things done before you even ask.
“There’s an idea we can’t seem to shake,” … “If AI agents truly become useful, the internet will go dark.”
Websites and apps won’t go away; it’s just that for many of them, consumers won’t visit or see these digital locations directly. Instead, they will access information, content, and widgets through an [AI assistant](https://www.businessinsider.com/twinmind-chatgpt-former-google-x-team-builds-ai-assistant-2024-11) that becomes “the aggregator of the aggregators,” the analysts said.
“If it scales and plays out like we think it might, this. Changes. Everything. The aggregators get disaggregated, and much of consumer internet may be structural shorts. Welcome to the Agentic AI era,” they wrote. “There’s nowhere to hide.”
No need to “Google” anything. You might not even need to take out your smartphone.”
You mean….Tong’s Ending for Deus Ex might actually happen?! Oh thank God in Heaven! Hopefully we won’t have to wait until 2050!
I’m honestly getting tired of searching endlessly for wrong answers, incorrect solutions and just mis-information in general. If an AI can research it for me and come up with the best plausible solution… why not. I’m not early on in my career and honestly if it can help me with things at this point… so be it.
This shit is a myth. These agents are notoriously unreliable. Just a different packaging for the “AI” slop
I believe most comments on Reddit about divisive subjects are from (agents) bots. The usernames are always very generic (word_word123) or that format. Just go to any political sub and see for yourself.
There’s worry that people might confuse an unwilling human for an AI agent. Or that people might pretend to be ai agents and sit there with chat bots apps and Google search. Or that actual AI agents might not be put there, or behaving honestly for the needs and wants of the people they are acting on behalf of, or that AI agents could be used for something very harmful in some way to many, moderation seems necessary to me, could be fallout (the game) situation
If this was actually possible, a complete blackout would probably be a good thing for this day and age. Could be a nice vacation for our brains. Alas, it ain’t gonna happen.
My imagination has told me that this would happen for many years.
The Internet is not only a dark place; it’s a dark space. And in it, you see no one but yourself.
We are crystal castles…
Hype and deception.
These AI’s are all the same. The words “I don’t know.” simply aren’t in their list of acceptable responses. They will often give inaccurate or outright wrong answers to your questions, and state them with absolute confidence.
The more that people use these things, the more normalized they become. Meanwhile, the real AI’s are being used to manipulate stocks, manipulate public opinion, and basically spy on everything you do for the corporate masters.
You aren’t allowed to play with real AI. Just the officially sanitized peasant version that makes you dumber.
Even if these AI agents aren’t crap, isn’t this just what happened when social media became a thing? So really this is just a problem for the big tech companies.
My answer to those that think this is just Hyperbole (An exaggeration) is name the last 10 websites you went to that wasn’t a search engine, AI, and apps don’t count.
Yeah I could see the internet literally becoming just porn/youtube and ways to interact with long distance friends. If you have an AI assistant that can handle all data processing then you wouldn’t really need to even look at the site/app it self.