If the web is a democratic project, capital and LLMs are a force to undermine that. To the capitalist, the early days of the web, of any kind of computing that a person could create or alter themselves, were a kind of wild west, an unexploitable landscape. Automating this kind of work, and making that automation expensive is a way of "correcting" that, of literally seizing the means of production away from the riffraff.