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Nah. It's degrading the internet, for sure; but not killing it. We got a similar event in September 1993 and the internet survived fine.
At least this time around there is intelligence involved, even if it is artificial.
A lot of the newbies were simply clueless, not necessarily lacking intelligence. Still, they were generating a sudden and huge influx of low quality "content" aka noise, lowering the ability of the [previous] userbase to find what it wanted, and that userbase got understandably pissed.
And eventually this was solved - some platforms died, some got moribund, but the ones that were able to ride on the new times thrived. And more importantly, the internet as a whole found ways to contain and sort that noise.
That's a lot like what's happening now, except that the agents are not a huge crowd of noobs - they're a handful of shitty people using LLMs and Stable Diffusion to do so.
“similar”
lol. a massive growth in real, human, users is not “similar” to a massive growth in fake undependable data with zero to negative value.