--- title: The Great Extinction: How AI is Destroying the Internet description: AI assistants are fundamentally reshaping the internet ecosystem by providing direct answers instead of directing users to websites, causing traffic declines... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-great-extinction-how-ai-is-destroying-the-internet-kn0bow9n4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Great Extinction: How AI is Destroying the Internet | daily.dev og:description: AI assistants are fundamentally reshaping the internet ecosystem by providing direct answers instead of directing users to websites, causing traffic declines... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-great-extinction-how-ai-is-destroying-the-internet-kn0bow9n4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Kn0Bow9n4.png og:image:alt: The Great Extinction: How AI is Destroying the Internet og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Great Extinction: How AI is Destroying the Internet **[habr](https://daily.dev/sources/habr)** · 12 min read · 65 upvotes · 14 comments ## Summary AI assistants are fundamentally reshaping the internet ecosystem by providing direct answers instead of directing users to websites, causing traffic declines for information sources like Wikipedia (23% drop) and Stack Overflow (64% drop). While entertainment platforms and social communities survive by offering emotional content and human interaction, the shift creates a monopoly on information access and threatens the diversity of knowledge sources. This creates a paradox where AI weakens the very sources it learned from, potentially leading to content degradation and the transformation of the internet from a global library into an amusement park dominated by a few AI giants. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@danirichestmaninbabylon** · 18 upvotes > AI generates garbage that is used to create content of lazy content creators, then the AI will ingest its own garbage leading us to some kind of idiocracy. **@a\_meb\_a** · 3 upvotes > dead forest theory **@eldonelledge** · 1 upvotes > I think AI is shining and new and people and businesses are excited. Just like when all other technologies first came out. Each one bigger than the last because the reach was further. > I do think everyone will use if for what they can, most will start seeing it's limits and back off a bit. > Most businesses will try to sell it as much as the can to make a dollar, but that to will fade. > > We will learn a lot from it as we go down this path. **@qinisom** · 1 upvotes > The irony is that even the thumbnail of the post was probably genenrated by AI **@geoffbutterfield** · 1 upvotes > The market value of curated content is going to be bigger than ever as AI muddies the information waters. --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#content-creation](https://daily.dev/tags/content-creation), [#digital-transformation](https://daily.dev/tags/digital-transformation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-great-extinction-how-ai-is-destroying-the-internet-kn0bow9n4) ```json 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