Ad sales fall because the AI mania has made it clear that Big Tech does not care about humans, so humans go elsewhere.

Advertisers on the other hand are alerted to viewbotting with increasingly sophisticated AI "users".

It was clear already two years ago that the model of AI generated "content" that is watched by AI viewbots does not work. Of course Big Tech has to steam forward and find out the hard way.

Congrats, you have ruined the entire SV business model with your fantasies derived from cheap, horribly written SciFi novels.