Within the next 5 years, the internet will be 90% spam. A.I. is already flooding youtube, pushing out content creators who spend hours making, editing and uploading their shyt. The content creators you see are probably about 2% of all the people on the platform. Most are constantly uploading content around the world and get maybe 10 views max per post. The shyt that's recommended to you from real people are the exceptions rather than the rule and it's going to get harder and harder to compete with A.I. as a real person making content. Eventually people will lose interest in doing that and actual human engagement with the platform will decline even faster than it's already doing. People are even uploading less content on social media right now, opting instead to just share things within group chats, discord servers or message boards.
A.I. is also being used to spam comment sections so a growing number of views aren't even from real people.
In 5-10 years the vast majority of the internet will be a.i. bots and agents arguing with each other, commenting on each other's content to farm rage and advertise obvious scams or digital porn.
The cost of everything will continue to rise and less and less people will be willing to pay for the ballooning price of "premium" services that do away with the ads and a.i. the amount of people choosing to read for fun is growing. The number of people choosing to limit their smartphone use is growing. I think TV might end up having a Renaissance if providers can offer A.I. free content with less advertising and a lower price than premium.
