The Next Phase of The Web Would Be Driven by AI

Reading an article, watching a video on TikTok or YouTube, listening to a podcast while you're out running, you feel you have a reasonable expectation the content you're consuming is created by a human being. There is good reason to assume at least part of what you're consuming was either created by or assisted by an AI or some form of NLP (Natural Language Processor) or machine learning algorithm. Whether it's a TikTok video about a viral trend, an article in a renowned newspaper, or an image accompanying a news story on television, chances are some forms of AI generation has taken place between the idea of the story being created and the story reaching you. It could be the image was generated using DALL·E 2 or another image-generating AI, it could be the title, or lede, or social media text was generated by an NLP, it's quite likely part of or the entire text was written by an AI based on the prompts and prior writings of a human creator, and if you leave your young kids watching YouTube videos, there's a very high chance they'll encounter videos entirely conceived of and generated by an AI. Whereas Web 1.0 was defined by people being able to publish content using HTML, CSS (and eventually JavaScript), and Web 2.0 was defined by people being able to publish content through user-friendly applications that generated the HTML and CSS and JavaScript for them, the next stage of the web is being defined right now.