I meant "we" in the collective sense. No single person or group is directly responsible, but overall humanity hasn't done a very good job building the internet

I meant "we" in the collective sense. No single person or group is directly responsible, but overall humanity hasn't done a very good job building the internet, in retrospect. It's almost a no-op for humanity. In the past we had disconnected, offline knowledge sources, like libraries and newspaper archives, and now we have them online, but we've packed it so full of spam and misinformation that it's hard to find anything and if you do, it's hard to trust it. Now we're making tools to summarize it all, and they're no doubt going to be just as exploititive as the stuff we've put into it, and also untrustworthy. It's easy enough to find people telling you what you want to hear online, and it's even easier with ChatGPT. Maybe people can't handle having access to all of the world's information.