That only thing sounds like strong motivation for them.

wait til Max comes

If not the citizens, then who can act as a check on the government? I admit we are in a bad situation because many people are not acting in their best interest to the point of complicity. Any other smaller group than everyone would be easier to control. I think there are multiple mechanisms enabling the current situation.

I am not going to bother taking a picture to upload with the model. Then you never get to see what I made. I understand the concern with AI slop, but this would also hurt the collaboration/sharing for non AI related posts.

The problem is even if the “structure” is being manipulated, the web site is freely sharing data to your computer. HTML is just data. Code is just data also, there is no reasonable guarantee that random code you hand out on the internet can run on what you hand it to.