Along the way people invented the 3D GPU: https://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/
But AI? To me, AI means the replacement of the human internet with doppelgangers eroding the possibility of human connection.
I get where you're coming from, and I've minimised having my face online in order to limit being doppelganged; but I think the destruction of real human connection may have happened when Facebook et al switched from "get more users" to "be addictive so the users stay on our site longer" (2012? Not sure).
Turned every user's relationships a little bit more parasocial, a little less real.
Like Amazon killed the big book sellers giving back some space for small bookshops; I think LLM slop will hit the big social media space for smaller human focused community sites. Not saying forums are coming back, but something like those should be able to rise.