It's going to be real fun when more than half of "user" generated content on the net will have been generated by AI content farms: forum comments, code, videos, pictures, entire websites.
I honestly think this is how we reach this "dead internet" meme. We're probably less than a decade away from this.
EDIT: here's my bold prediction. In the next 10 years, a very successful content aggregator (imagine Reddit, Instagram or Tiktok), where content is exclusively and openly AI generated, will reach the Alexa top 100 ranking.
We will have HN users saying we're too old and we just don't get why it is more fun to mindlessly get your dopamine fix from scrolling and liking AI generated images.
Arguably, we're already there. Most of the Internet is content marketing, and that content isn't meaningfully different than AI output. That it's generated by protein bots instead of silicon ones is just implementation detail.
> Most of the Internet is content marketing, and that content isn't meaningfully different than AI output.
I argue that it is. Human content farms don't create long-form articles, artwork or deep fake videos by the truckload, in minutes, from just a little prompt. And humans are relatively expensive.
AI generated spam will be orders of magnitude cheaper, faster and thus incredibly more common.
