Whilst the output of AI is astonishing by itself, is it really creating meaningful content en masse? I see myself relying more and more on human-curated content because typical commercialized use cases of AI generated stuff (product descriptions, corp blogs, SEO landing pages, etc.) all read like meaningless blabber, to me at least.
Whenever I see some cool techbro boasting how he created his "SEO factory" using ChatGPT, I can't help but think that the poor guy is shitting where he eats without even realizing it. Take Google with their Search and Ads; over the last decade they managed to bring down overall quality of web content that much, that I'm just completely fed up using it because by 99% chance I'll land on some meaningless SEO page.
From what I can perceive with things like HN, Mastodon, etc. it feels more like a rejuvenation of the human centric brand trusted Web. And by that I mean: Dear crawler, just use my content. Maybe you can do something good with it, maybe not. But chances are low, it's gonna replace me in any way but rather improve my content. It only leads to a downward spiral if we stick with the past of commercial thinking (more cheap content, more followers, more ads); if we'd instead switch to subscription models individuals won't get rich but we'd have a great ecosystem of ideas and content again.