The Internet is Unsustainable
" Will it outlive us? " Writing for Communities magazine, “AI and Civilizational Collapse,” Kara Huntermoon said: The internet is unsustainable. “Un-sustainable” means, by definition, that it cannot continue indefinitely. It will end as finite resources are exhausted. The question she poses is whether the social infrastructure that we rely on will be so degraded as to be destroyed before then. It is already impossible to tell, in many cases, whether a video, image, or article was created by a human being in an attempt to reflect reality, or whether it was crafted by AI. In my own piece immediately following hers in that issue, I described how my life had been upended and thrown into turmoil by an internet stalker who expertly employed social media algorithms and fake stories to build a following. She was able to attack my reputation with an expertly crafted disinformation campaign that even sucked in many of my oldest friends. We are now swamped by AI-supercharged di...
