Is AI Slop Killing the Internet?

"the answers you get - might be colored by the need to sell certain products."

"If trusted reviewers lose traffic because their work is scraped and repackaged without attribution or compensation, their incentive to produce high-quality, unbiased reviews disappears."

"If the last defensible asset is authenticity, then the next arms race is over what it means to be real."

"If no one pays for the news, the news stops being reported. Investigations don’t happen. Deep dives into complex issues are replaced by AI summaries of press releases and hallucinations."

"The web could begin to resemble a television camera pointed at a television—recycling recycled content."

"even without a path to profitability, they could still destroy the economic scaffolding that supports journalism, education, and public knowledge."

"it’s more likely that journalism and knowledge institutions will adapt to the new environment than vanish from it."