It's not AI killing the internet, it's the parasitic worms in human suits that run hedge and equity funds. Everything gets converted into "value" which means nothing has value. The end game seems to be one engorged sack of money, and nothing left to buy with it.

It's not the parasitic worms managing Apache, it's us. For a fat paycheck.

It's still early days but things are definitely trending that way. Google Search is significantly worse than it used to be. Twitter is a cesspool of blue checked spam. Reddit is still functioning, but I keep seeing obviously transformer-generated comments more and more often (and I'm sure I'm reading tons more without even realizing). Once Sora and its ilk become widespread Youtube, Tiktok and Instagram are gonna get flooded with entirely synthetic content.

In the case of wayback machine reliance it isn't AI really; that's due to the decline of sectors of the tech industry meaning loads of places are cutting back on hosting old stuff for very slight profit gains.

There's an argument the way AI is getting so much focus has resulted in a neglect of this kind of stuff after years/decades of it sticking around at mostly fairly low cost.

I'd say a bigger source of harm has been the endless iteration in agile practices meaning old stuff is treated as low priority because the business focus is always on adding new stuff. It's a lot harder to argue up the management chain that making something more stable will have longer term gains than A/B testing several new designs. The amount of sites that repeatedly destroyed their old content with a redesign is a bit absurd. A LOT of websites feel like they could benefit from improving their fundamental experiences and it's been so long since that was a priority that it's virtually an impossibility to untangle it at this point.