We're full speed ahead on validating the dead internet theory is my take. Increasingly things are just generated by LLMs, parsed and read by bots to improve SEO and then fed back into LLMs.
People are just going to retreat into smaller communities where they can guarantee they're interacting with a person and the era of widely sharing art or music or writing will be over.
At least assuming that the grift train doesn't derail and catch fire before them.
I mean normal people communicate with each other over text message. That has been the case and continues being the case. The people you see very actively participating in social media and blogs are complete outliers. No normal person can have a valid relationship with 1000 people at once.
People are just going to retreat into smaller communities where they can guarantee they're interacting with a person and the era of widely sharing art or music or writing will be over.
At least assuming that the grift train doesn't derail and catch fire before them.