After google started spamming us with pinterest and cheap stackoverflow copied forum slop, the internet was pretty much saturated with garbage. Google and Faceb

After google started spamming us with pinterest and cheap stackoverflow copied forum slop, the internet was pretty much saturated with garbage. Google and Facebook and SEO are to blame - they wanted to squeeze every last drop they could, and they did, and here we are. AI might make things 1-2% worse, but we weren't suffering from a lack of legitimate content or media. We were suffering from centralized control and walled gardens force feeding us slop in the name of profit, the total enshittification of the internet without regard for the damage done - tragedy of the commons, maybe. AI could also make things better, because it's no longer worth slogging through the bullshit with search - I'll have AI do my searching for me, or follow its recommendation directly, and never interact with any of the monetized bullshit the search engine tries to pawn off. SEO content will have to get through ever more competent and discerning AI in order to get eyeballs. That eliminates a broad class of low effort trash, directly demonetizing bad faith actors. So now you have content creators producing more plausible, but mediocre content, but OAI and other AI providers will have direct access to their logs - if they register someone as having had produced bulk trash content, they can shut down the account, report to authorities or other companies if there's some sort of fraud or illicit behavior going on. There are competing pressures, and with Google also losing its monopoly on adtech, maybe we'll see companies forced to compete on quality products instead of exploitation of user data, all the while seeing the general quality of the internet improve. Or maybe AI will just accelerate the race to the bottom and the internet's dead already.