Exploring ChatGPT

Exploring ChatGPT

The Second Internet

Where Humans Are No Longer the Users

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Exploring ChatGPT
Jan 28, 2026
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Most people still think the internet is for humans.

That assumption is already wrong.

A second internet is forming underneath the one you see.

An internet where AI systems talk to other AI systems.
Where software negotiates with software.
Where decisions happen before any human is notified.

Humans still scroll.

Humans still post.

But increasingly, humans are not the primary participants.

We are the interface.

The real activity is moving below the surface.

The internet is becoming machine-to-machine infrastructure.

And once machines become the main users, everything about power, economics, and control shifts.

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