"Won't AI take over the internet first?" — a 2022 prediction that aged well
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-17
danfaggella recalls telling a friend in 2022 about the coming wave of AI friends/girlfriends and immersive personalized AI experiences. The friend replied: "by the time AI is that powerful, won't it have disrupted society / taken over the internet already?" The author now thinks that was right — AI-generated content flooded the internet before AI companions became mainstream.
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