AI Is Quietly Draining the Public Internet of Thought
brianrkelly · x · 2026-08-22
Brian Roemmele introduces "The Great Inversion": AI is reversing the internet's most valuable resource flow. For decades, the web's core value was messy, public human Q&A—friction, debate, and collective thinking left behind as searchable, durable public knowledge. Now, that flow has reversed; humans have stopped posting in public forums, asking private AIs instead, leading to the depletion of public thought on the internet.
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