By skyforbes 
OpenAI’s latest “innovation” by sliding ChatGPT into our group chats feels suspiciously like déjà vu for anyone who remembers the internet before it went glossy. The pitch is shiny: up to 20 humans and one omnipresent AI coexisting in a single conversation, coordinating trips, debating ideas, maybe planning who brings what to Tahoe. But underneath the veneer? It’s Usenet. Again. Only this time, the AI reads everything.
Back in the pre-web days, Usenet was the messy, glorious proto–social network where humanity came together to argue, pontificate, overshare, flame, troll, apologize, and repeat. Each newsgroup was a micro-civilization, alt.sports.hockey, rec.arts.books, comp.sys.mac, all powered by shared interest and a total lack of adult supervision. Everyone posted. Everyone watched. And everything lived forever.
Now replace the nerds with 800 million ChatGPT users and substitute the flame wars with “collaborative productivity,” and voilà: GroupGPTNet. Tap an icon, drop in 20 people, and suddenly your weekend-planning thread looks like alt.rec.travel with a bot that never sleeps. At least Usenet didn’t read your messages to improve its neural architecture.
OpenAI says this is about “coordination” and “conversation.” Sure. And Usenet was about “academic…