I think the biggest possible upside of AI is that there will be a brief money grab where people are raking in money on automatically generated internet content

I think the biggest possible upside of AI is that there will be a brief money grab where people are raking in money on automatically generated internet content - then the internet will be filled with useless noise and no one will use it in the obsessive, drip-fed-dopamine-IV way we currently use it- cause it will all just be garbage. Social media will continue to exist, but consuming content will require trust in the publisher e.g. tied to a real identity or to a trusted anonymous or business entity. Just my speculation, but I think the more garbage we put on the internet the better