Comment by marginalia_nu
4 years ago
ChatGPT-generated blogspam will be the tipping point that launches Marginalia Search as the dominant searching platform. I will become incredibly rich overnight as a result, go out and celebrate, get a bit drunk, and post a $10M bid for twitter as a joke. Elon jumps at the opportunity to get rid of it. Failing to backpedal, I'll end up buying the company, but I won't have any idea how to run twitter. Someone will tweet at me that "twit" is offensive, and several dozen angry people will join the riot. Being out of touch with what kids these days like, I'll decide to change the name to "catter" and mandate that the only form of communication will be cat pictures as was all the rage 15 years ago. Catter will be accused of causing developmental disorders as young people begin to sit in boxes and sleep on their keyboards. In an unfortunate event, a virulent new strain Toxoplasmosis-23 will emerge as a new pandemic as cat populations soar globally. The Catter leadership will in a press conference admit that mistakes have been made, but that our engineers are trying to solve the problem. China and Russia will flounder while attempting to censor the catter communication as neither Putin nor Xi can understand cat body-language. As a result, cat populations soar especially high in those areas, and the army of domestic cats will kill all small birds and rodents, disturbing the ecosystem and causing a severe famine.
Nailed it!