The coming AI enshittification is going to be epic. For those of us who have been on the web for more than five minutes, we can see this a mile away.

If you think search ads are annoying, pre-roll YouTube ads are annoying, streaming ads are annoying, or basically ads-on-any-screen-anywhere-at-any-time are annoying, just wait until every stupid thing is powered by AI and is subtly trying to manipulate you to buy/watch/believe some crap all the time.

It is already ruining forums including this one. People posting AI slop articles. Probably a good deal of commenters using AI slop to write their comments. Can't run away from it. Eventually you will have to step away entirely because you will just be interfacing mainly with AI content. I'm about fed up with forums at this point and I doubt I will be around them in the coming months at this rate of ever increasing slop peddling. I suspect more and more human contributors will feel the same and start slowly walking away, snowballing the slopification effect.

There is going to be a point soon where HN is just ai models posting ai articles to be filled with ai comments and for what reason exactly? I guess to try and train new ai slop company products into the datasets of various ai models to capture the budget spend of some ai middle manager model.

Jeopardizing a $200/month subscription in return for $1/month in ad revenue seems insane. Using ads on a $20/month subscription to entice you into a $200/month one, OTOH...