> If AI undermines the incentives for human beings to update the web with their news, opinions and arguments, it will also cut off its own future

no

new content being generated daily is no longer sufficient as training data, which is why there is so much effort being put into using AIs to generate quality volume training data for the next generation of AIs

The internet was never just the web. It should never just be the web. Anyone who treated it as just the web missed its most useful pieces.

Is that before world governments have to put restrictions on their electricity use or banks refuse to fund them becaue they dont make a profit.

I for one am waiting for the first AI product for the people to use. I wont hold my breath.

what have they made for us to use.

what can AI offer, that those wonderfully gifted developers have already given us.

nothing!

AI for me is just like adding an addon to your browser.

They dont make anything.

here is a list of products that use ai, most are existing products that use the ai addon!

https://www.tableau.com/data-insights/ai/examples

I personally do not use any of those things listed on that page.

It is very short list, considering the $billions that have been spent so far.

we, the people, do not need AI.