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To a certain extent yes, the subsidies that enable dumb use cases will go away. The capacity will remain, but who would bother?

I don’t think it will disappear as the tools can be useful (finding bugs, searching large stores of info etc), but obviously bogus things like this meant to impress the gullible will disappear yes.

Sadly the internet has already been ruined by bots pretending to be human, and there’s no way back from that.

LLM’s - no. Cartoon colleagues - yes.

Bring this into a professional workplace and watch yourself get laughed out of the building

> Do you think the technology will vanish if and when a financially bubble pops?

The internet didn't disappear after dot-bomb, but the cue-cat did.