AI is cannibalizing the internet

A growing amount of online content is now created for machines rather than people, leading to concerns that AI is "cannibalizing the internet." Websites are publishing numerous bland articles and companies are releasing "research" to get their products mentioned by chatbots. Search results are increasingly filled with summaries copied from other summaries, suggesting that AI is replacing the human internet with a cheaper, synthetic version of itself.

This report uniquely highlights how AI is shifting content creation from human-centric to machine-centric, unlike previous discussions that focused on AI's content generation capabilities.