The internet pollution is being done by humans. They're only now using AI to do so. > In other words, significant numbers of researchers at A.I. conferences we

The internet pollution is being done by humans. They're only now using AI to do so. > In other words, significant numbers of researchers at A.I. conferences were caught handing their peer review of others’ work over to A.I. — or, at minimum, writing them with lots of A.I. assistance. AI is the lazy tool at the moment, but the internet was already polluted by humans using other means for other reasons besides publishing papers. Every technological convenience or economic cost reduction has similar effects: email spam, SMS, automated calls, ...