Not my domain, and I know I’m amongst experts. But at the risk of stating the obvious: It feels like the claim here (and elsewhere) is that we’re near the break

Not my domain, and I know I’m amongst experts. But at the risk of stating the obvious: It feels like the claim here (and elsewhere) is that we’re near the breaking point of the incentive model that’s propelled knowledge out of human minds and onto the web-as-we-know-it in coherent, discoverable, standardized, useful form. I’ve always been a little old-fashioned, in that I prefer to trust specific bodies of writing and specific humans for knowledge about specific topics, even if that keeps me slow and behind the zeitgeist. But in any case, now that webpages-for-traffic well seems on the verge of being too polluted to drink from. What’s the next paradigm? Walled gardens of proven-provenance content for our AI summarizers to wade through? AI-vs-AI arms race? Or does the web become more about underlying facts and structured data, and meaning and insight become less commoditized and more person-to-person again? I mean are any of these tensions really new, or is this just a Google problem?