Interesting takes on how quickly AI has passed 50% of all internet traffic…
The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It (it’sFoss)
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Can’t wait to take part in its funeral 
PS. by the way, will it be held online? 
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Will be interesting to see when AI fills up the whole internet with traffic so that people can’t use it anymore. And while doing so, AI consumes all available electricity.
Then AI likely prevents shutting down any AI device, and … what next? 
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AI trains on AI content
More accurately, AI trains on American-British AI content: McDonald’s, for short. There are concepts and ways of thinking that resides outside the purview of the English speaking internet, the AI eventually emulates a comical Terminator and IBM salesman, or lately, hysterical American women on TikTok, rather than Ghandi or Tolstoï.
The evolution from emoticons to emojis is thanks to developments in Japan, rather than in the US.
TikTok is a fusion of Chinese-American online course video and music ventures.
The answer to McDonald’s in AI training is, to retain a section of the internet, that isn’t a McDonald’s. It’s not Reddit.
Hosting services like www.neocities.org and www.substack.com aim to restore the old webpage driven and writer-driven internet—as you know, many pages are just a few kilobytes, rather than the hundreds of megabytes disguised as “apps”.
The amount of energy that will be required to power all these new DC’s is not possible to construct in the near future but I would guess those involved are going to try and make it happen anyway…
“Grid Strategies, a power sector consulting firm, estimates 120 gigawatts of additional electricity demand by 2030. This includes 60 gigawatts from data centers based on forecasts from the utilities. To put that in perspective, 60 gigawatts is roughly equivalent to the 2024 peak hourly power demand of Italy, the world’s eighth-largest economy.”
I am sorry to say that but, internet was already a horrible place even before the arrival of AI. 50% of the internet is probably porn and cat videos. The other 40% is stupid twitter rants and instagram food photos and youtube.
Remaining 10% is probably the only useful chunk of it, and AI can not touch that part (thankfuly). I mean what will it do? Create fake wikipedia pages? (i hope not). I think we are safe.
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I feel, you are right, but the net survived the last 30 years. AI is the next challenge…
But, I’m afraid, we have to see AI in a much larger context: Many people think (imho), they replace own thinking by AI and will gain a IQ of >>100 
And some companies try to delegate their crude & broken organisation & processes to polish by AI…
A new goddess is born, seems to me - not in the net only. And the offering is the huge power-drain. - Welcome in the beautiful, new world…
The problem is twofold. First, when AI trains on AI-generated content, it’s learning from increasingly diluted material. Think of it like making a photocopy of a photocopy – each generation loses quality and detail. Second, this content often lacks the human touch, creativity, and original thinking that makes the internet valuable.
Sounds like an AI problem, not an Internet problem. Websites not able to monetize cheap AI slob because of the awful quality actually sounds like a win for the Internet.
Problem is, these platforms are not relevant as long as most of the trafic keep going through “bandwith hungry” web sites/platforms.
Yes. It’s the Aipocalypse.
Very soon, like in just a few years, there will be more ai generated content, from comments and posts to images and videos on the net than actual human generated content. We already have more bots than humans surfing the net in fact, we already reached that point.
is this a trick question?
edit: /s
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Humm…many it’s a good thing if AI is busy posting false pics, videos and other AI slop so it can’t make Terminators!? 
Just a thought.
But seriously yeah fake AI stuff taking over the internet is bad. 
Not good …
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Quite a few hits if you use the following search phrase in your preferred search engine:
is ai killing the internet
I think the Internet is a great place, even better than when it started back in the days of Netscape. Yes, I’m revealing my age.
I don’t visit porn sites or watch cat videos, although I’m a big fan of YouTube (but not Google). Never understood the draw of Twitter/X, Instagram, Fakebook (that’s NOT a typo), etc.
Only, if you know what you look for. Plenty of people look for the wrong stuff on the internet, see:
I find so much being judgemental and moralizing over what others do or don’t… just nauseating 
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I’m judgemental when I read about stupid kids doing stupid Tik Tok challenge, killing themselves is one thing, but many times they put other people lives at risk. 
Yeah… but we are talking about adults here. No one has to carry my cross. I am very well suited to carry it for myself. And no one has to take my place in the coffin. I fit very well into that myself when the day comes. So thanks but no thanks!
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