I feel like social media like TikTok ruined the internet but that's just my opinion.

I've seen AI generated imagery in a lot of shops recently

I would say as far back as 2013, this is when I started notice bad changes on the internet, starting with Google+ being forced on users of YouTube, then copyright started getting worse with automated Content ID claims. Compared to the AI-pocalpyse of today it's nothing but this is when it started ...

Once the world began becoming corporatized instead of appealing to the customers. Internet became more of a business once everyone found that there can be tons of money made from it. Probably I would have to say somewhere by 2013 or 14, since then I just remember the constant decline of the internet ...

i'm gonna say something that i don't see pointed out in these discussions
even the golden age of the internet paved for the gradual worsening of it
netflix selling dvds in the 90s allowed for it to become the streaming megacompany it is today
the battle over "piracy" led to entertainment ...

it’s kind of amazing how, of all new tech fads, AI is the one that nigh-universally causes ordinary, not-terminally-online people to groan. you just mention the words “AI” and their day is ruined. really speaks to how unwanted this tech is for the common folk

doesn’t help that i don’t even know ...

i'm gonna say something that i don't see pointed out in these discussions
even the golden age of the internet paved for the gradual worsening of it
netflix selling dvds in the 90s allowed for it to become the streaming megacompany it became today
the battle over "piracy" led to entertainment ...

it just looks better,,,, more personalized instead of the same boring layout