The problem will not be that the value of content will drop to zero, but that the value of asking someone else to ask ChatGPT for me and then wrap it in ads for

The problem will not be that the value of content will drop to zero, but that the value of asking someone else to ask ChatGPT for me and then wrap it in ads for me to view is very low compared to the inevitable result of I'll just ask ChatGPT or similar directly. Its the LMFGTFY or whatever the acronym for "let me google that for you" brought to ChatGPT topics. If, for example, as already seems to be the case, the news becomes nothing more than someone else generated algorithmic fluff mixed with censored propaganda that somehow ends up with lower trust metrics than actual email spam, why do I need someone to make that for me, just ask for my own copy. The future will not be CNN trying to lie to you and sell you stuff, it'll be the AI directly lying to you and trying to sell you stuff, CNN will no longer be a provider of value. Or MSNBC or Fox or BBC or your choice of propaganda outlet. The other side problem is if you want culinary excellence today you'll eventually find guidance to buy "modernist cuisine at home" or similar technical cookbooks or maybe some old Alton Brown TV show memes, but search engines are required by corporate to have total randos provide opinions about page quality and needs met that are going to be uneducated and thus generic/bland and are designed to select inoffensive bland middle of the road content, not excellent recipes. What appeals to children more, an animated skinner box / loot box paradise designed to attract their attention and lure them in, or a calculus textbook? If corporate goal is to maximize the former you'll get more of the former, but what if the latter is the only way to learn calculus? Well, you aint going to learn calculus, thats for sure. How AI / ChatGPT will avoid bland normie ignorance is an excellent question. How to provide bland middle of the road answers to bland middle of the road questions is essentially a solved problem; how to cook the best hamburger possible cannot be handled by that subculture where groupthink conforming to average blandness is the primary criteria enforced.