As far as I am concerned, the Internet has been in a downward spiral ever since smartphones got popular, with nothing in sight to stop that trend. The Web got crippled by content getting moved into proprietary apps and what's left of the Web is filled with so many ads that an adblocker is pretty much mandatory.

AI provides a way out of this darkness, as it can absorb raw information and regurgitate it in whatever form you desire. That's huge, that's like Adblocking, ReaderMode and a whole lot of other tools rolled into one, just even more flexible and controllable by natural language. You can finally separate the information from its (often malicious) presentation. Bots like AutoTL;DR are just the start of it, a lot more little helper like that will follow, especially once we get multi-modal models that can understand and navigate graphical elements.

That would be a good step forward, since many A.I. systems do not fully disclose the data they were trained on.

Neither do most journalists. Most of the articles out there are just copied from other blogs, lacking any originality or fact checking and not even providing links to those sources. Even this very article is just regurgitating the same tired old talking points that have been circulating for a year or so.