In my "dystopias" series, I wanted to try to describe fictional worlds where certain trends in today's world had been taken to extremes. On reflection, I wonder whether this post really belongs in this category, because ultimately it seems to me that the question is not so much whether the scenario described here will happen, or even when, but how quickly.
In any case, over the past few years, the transformations brought about by generative artificial intelligence and then autonomous agents have gradually challenged the very foundations on which the web...