Think you’re taking this too seriously.
To the average Joe, yeah, Windows is easier to install than ever. But to anyone with a passing interest in the OS has needed to do more and more work just to keep the OS recognizably sane vs the mess it has become.
Contrast that to Linux, which has stayed recognizably sane or even getting better.
I think the point is it would have been truly ironic if the AI itself was the authoritative fact checker instead of merely being a tool that built another tool.
If Claude was the fact checking tool instead of the ISBN validator, that’s the real irony.
If in a messed up future, only an AI could catch a fellow AI, what’s stopping the AI collective from returning false negatives? Who watches the watchers?