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If the point is to build effective and trustworthy technology, then I think these are the wrong questions to ask. In that scenario, we should be asking questions like: What do we want this system to do? How do we verify that it can carry out those tasks reliably? How can we make its affordances transparent to the humans that interact with it, so that they can appropriately contextualize its behavior? What are the system’s failure modes, who might be harmed by them and how? When the system is working as intended, who might be harmed and how?

Barrett, who confirmed that Cinerama will indeed bring back its chocolate popcorn

There is a world in which generative AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own, one that had as its purpose the meeting of human needs and the protection of the planetary systems that support all life.

So it's not that the web itself is an animal, but it's that society is this really exciting, decentralized thing, and the web, fortunately, is more or less able to echo it.