>>56486539There is a 5th option, which will affect the whole internet.
As the proliferation of incredibly complex chatbots continue, most people will likely stop using the internet as they currently do. After all, they mostly use the internet to entertain themselves, AND more vitally, to communicate to others. The former can be done with things like Netflix without needing to rely on any other part of the internet.
The issue for them, of course, is that these convincing chatbots in any meaningful quantity require immense amounts of resources to run. Without people to chat to, they become useless, and a huge burden to the people running them. With all of those people leaving, the internet will once more become an incredibly niche thing, and with it, I think most will choose to shut down their chatbots in favor of other implements.
The fear of chatbots will prevent the return of most people, leaving this place, as with almost every website, desolate, but finally mostly human again.
