It's been a very long time since "I saw it on the internet so it must be true" was a novel joke.

So then some tech bros wanted to create "AI" so they fed a language based machine learning model the entire fucking internet and anybody ever expected anything of value?

It convincingly simulates a pedantic internet jackass with unlimited drugs and time on their hands. But that content is freely available at a slightly more human pace. Nobody is paying for more of it except the very same tech companies using every psychological trick in the book to drive engagement, even if it harms users.

The stuff under the AI umbrella will be useful for some things, and probably pretty valuable in some industries. New tools often are. But propping up however many trillions or tens of trillions of perceived value in the economy?