“How happy we all were before 2023. Before the ChatGPTs and DALL-Es of the world had entered our lives. Before their “magical” capabilities began to amaze us while they did something else: Kill the internet. That’s at least what that analysts like Ed Zitron believe is happening.
According to him, we may be seeing the internet as we knew it die. And the worst of all is that he has a powerful argument to believe it.
That argument is none other than how Generative AI is contaminating everything. It began to do so in 2023, when images and texts generated by AI models like those of OpenAI began to infiltrate social networks. That seemed wonderful: how well the AI wrote.
How cool they were “The images—as long as you didn’t ask him to draw hands—we shared those creations on Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, and we didn’t realize something important. We were feeding a monster.”