Experts Say That Soon, Almost the Entire Internet Could Be Generated by AI

The Internet of the future could be written by bots, but will that make it better or worse? Experts at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS) are raising questions about AI-generated content, and how it could come to dominate the metaverse and other digital locations. CIFS expert Timothy Shoup estimates that 99 percent to 99.9 percent of the internet's content will be AI-generated by 2025 to 2030, especially if models like OpenAI's GPT-3 achieve wider adoption. "The internet would be completely unrecognizable," Shoup told colleague Sofie Hvitved. As its capabilities advance, the idea is that AI could start to generate entire online worlds, along with all the stuff that inhabits them -- not to mention all the online material that's currently mostly made by humans.