if your food stores used to be 800m^3 of grain, and you manage to increase that 1600m^3 of grain, plus 5000m^3 of rabbit shit stored in the room next door, did your food supplies get better or worse?
almost nothing on the internet, in category terms, has gone away.
lots of new stuff has arrived, perhaps (perhaps) in volume outweighing whatever one might consider good.
i suggest that it is far from clear that this means "the internet is worse".
I would adjust your analogy to describe the new state as 1600m^3 of grain mixed well with 5000m^3 of rabbit shit. I’d be happier if the AI generated, SEO garbage was somehow isolated “in the room next door”.
if your food stores used to be 800m^3 of grain, and you manage to increase that 1600m^3 of grain, plus 5000m^3 of rabbit shit stored in the room next door, did your food supplies get better or worse?
almost nothing on the internet, in category terms, has gone away.
lots of new stuff has arrived, perhaps (perhaps) in volume outweighing whatever one might consider good.
i suggest that it is far from clear that this means "the internet is worse".