The internet we built is breaking

The internet we built is breaking

The internet we know is changing. Bots and computer-written content were always out there (see Dead Internet Theory), but with large language models like ChatGPT, generating mountains of text has never been easier. What some people call the "commercial internet", the space where companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, websites like The Verge, and yes, even overkill, all try to make money, is shifting fast. AI is at the center of it.When we star…