Indeed. People have spent lots of words talking about the how the saturation of generative AI output will spoil future trainig, which is true, but is most imme

Indeed. People have spent lots of words talking about the how the saturation of generative AI output will spoil future trainig, which is true, but is most immediately a problem for the AI model developers themselves. But even with them only acting as consumers, they break almost of the economic and social bases for how the internet works. Advertisers want their ads to be seen by humans, experts/pontificators want their words to to be seen by humans, artists want their images to be seem by humans. These things provide the foundations of the internet as we know it. If online tools are being used by bots who are unaffected bu ads, and texts are summarized by bots instead of read directly, and images are synthesized dynamically instead of appreciated directly, the internet itself breaks. As the author notes, the next most likely equilibrium involves an even more commercial, more expensive, more gated, more impersonal future than we might have already seen ourselves careening towards just a few years ago. Enjoy what you've had!