Content overproduction

I keep seeing people on social media demanding "don't show me AI-generated content" or asking for mandatory "Made with AI" labels. And I get it. But I think this isn't really about AI. Not entirely, anyway.

The internet has always annoyed people with bad content. It's just that before, bad content was made by hand. Slowly.

When smartphones showed up, the internet drowned in photos. When SEO copywriting took off, it drowned in text. When short vertical video arrived — well, we all know what happened then. Every single time, the same pattern: production costs dropped, and content inflation kicked in. Bad content first.

Now it's happening with AI. The cost of creating text, images, or video has dropped to nearly zero. Meanwhile, human attention hasn't grown one bit. What really gets to people isn't AI itself — it's the overproduction.

And honestly? That's fair.