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AI is turning the internet into a 'Library of Babel' (but worse)

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AI is turning the internet into a 'Library of Babel' (but worse)

The author reflects on the degradation of internet content quality due to the mass adoption of generative AI. Finding information has become difficult as search results are flooded with repetitive, generic texts written by neural networks. The author notes that for AI, all text is merely a set of tokens devoid of human depth. Consequently, the internet is becoming a 'Library of Babel' where the volume of information grows, but its value and uniqueness plummet. Content becomes predictable, losing the author's intent and truth. This trend leads to users encountering 'averaged' content that offers no new value, merely paraphrasing existing data. The author calls for reflection on the future of the information space, where human experience is being replaced by automated generation, turning the global network into an endless stream of meaningless noise.

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