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It took a long time for the internet to result in things that improved life for in tangible ways.

Damn near a decade or more. We're a little under 4 years into the chatbot era.

But the old internet never had so much negative impact on the world with so little upside.

Facebook and its ilk sort were more or less the unravelling of western liberalism. The descent happened before generative ai.

That does not make the AI-part any better.