The future of the internet

This is yet another lament on the consequences of widespread use of generative AI, though a bit more aggressive than usual. Only proceed if you're still not tired of people complaining about large language models. I have a bad feeling about the Internet's future, and I'm not the only one. We already had problems with aggressive tracking, advertising, surveillance capitalism, attention economy, bloated websites with so many tracking techniques that privacy is virtually nonexistent, and websites with so many banners, ads, newsletter popups, and auto-playing videos that the whole browsing experience feels like an unbearable escape room that makes you want to close the browser and the laptop and never open them again. The advent of LLMs gave us even more mass-produced content, polluting the already declining search engine results to the degree that ancient forum threads from 2006 feels more trustworthy than most websites simply for being human-written without any incentive of gathering…