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And once we get to the point where AI content can be generated on-the-fly for each doom-scrolling user based on their behaviour on the platform, it's game over.

Only if people want what AI is making. I've been using LLMs for about 5 years. I've been integrating them into a project for about 3. And I don't think anyone is going to find AI generated slop entertaining. I have played with generating text, images, music, and once you get over the novelty it wears thin really quickly.

If you fill someone's feed with that stuff, they are going to leave over time. But I mean AI isn't even that concerning to me. I've been thinking about this social trust graph tool for a decade. Social media has been overwhelmingly garbage at least that long.

I'm using tools to blacklist AI sites in search, but the lists aren't keeping up, and they don't extend beyond search.

Crowd source that. Plug a blocklist into a pi-hole and open it up for contribution.

There will come a point, probably very soon, where companies will figure out how to deliver ads and AI content as if it were from the original source content, which will make it impossible to block or filter out.

If they do, it will also be impossible for them to track and thus get paid for.

The internet is largely self-healing. I mean I might have preferred it 35 years ago, and I'm not saying things are great, but you sound like you're spiraling a bit and I just want you to know things will be alright. I'm way more worried about Trump then AI on the internet.