The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

Jordan Goodman argues that generative AI has made much of the internet unusable: search engines inject AI answers instead of direct sources, and social media is flooded with bot-generated slop. He's deactivated most accounts, especially X, and now favors his own website, RSS feeds, and selective YouTube subscriptions for deeper content. His hope: the internet becomes usable again.

The barrier to generate content is trending toward 0, causing noise to drown out the signal.

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2026-09-02