AI broke the one thing we can't fix

A few weeks ago, Nikita gets on his own

platform and says, "In less than 90

days, iMessage, phone calls, and Gmail

will be so flooded with spam and

automation that they will no longer be

usable, and we will have no way to stop

it." Now, this isn't some random schmuck

posting conspiracy theories on Reddit

about how Chipotle gives you diarrhea on

purpose. No, this is a man who gets

professionally destroyed by this

every single day and he's basically

telling the rest of us to lube up

because it's coming for everyone. 2

weeks later he purges 1.7 million bot

accounts off X and the next day they

just respawn. See, bots used to be

simple. Now they have like a PhD in

natural language processing and a

Bitcoin wallet. And so someone asked him

why it's about to get worse. and his

answer was the one word no one wants to

hear. Open claw. Now, if you're not

familiar with OpenClaw, firstly, I envy

you. It's currently the highest starred

software project in GitHub history. It

has more stars than React. Jensen Wong,

the CEO of Nvidia, who's almost

certainly never tried OpenClaw or even

knows what it does, just called it the

most important open- source project in

the history of humanity. What OpenClaw

does is it lets any with a laptop

build an AI agent that can send emails

and texts and browse the web and make

phone calls and impersonate you. Some

guy had his open claw negotiate car

prices with dealers over iMessage while

he was at brunch. Nikita's point is

basically what happens when every

scammer in Nigeria and every crypto bro

in Miami and every horny catfisher in

Wyoming gets one of these. See, because

before you needed to actually know

to be a spammer, you needed to know how

to operate servers and write scripts and

read code. Now you just need a laptop

and the moral compass of a pharma CEO.

And the problem with spam is not just

that it's a nuisance. The Chinese

government, surprise, surprise, they

figure this out before anyone. The

Chinese government floods ex search

results with porn every time there's

some political unrest. So when there's

protests in China, the search results

for Chinese keywords suddenly become

nothing but tits and ass. It's no longer

censorship or blocking the information.

Now you drown the information out with

content that is 10 times more engaging.

Some guy in Beijing opens up X to look

up protest footage and instead finds

himself jerking off for 45 minutes. The

CCP is looking through his webcam like,

"Nice, we got him." You can't overthrow

the government while you're jerking off.

It's the great come wall of China.

Basically, we all live behind that wall

now. And the reply spam on X, I mean, it

used to be like hot girls in bikinis

saying, "Check out my profile." Now it's

AI generated hot girls with AI generated

bikinis going, "Check out my AI

generated profile," which links to an AI

generated crypto scam. We used to get

scammed by real people, damn it. The

worst part about modern AI content is

that every single piece of AI generated

content was specifically engineered at

the neural network level to be more

engaging than anything a human being can

ever write. There's a process called RHF

where they train these models by showing

humans two responses and asking them

which one do you prefer and then they

just reinforce whichever one is more

compelling. Every AI model has been

mathematically optimized to hold your

attention better than any human written

piece of content ever could. Google

traffic to actual publishers dropped 38%

last year in the US alone. The economic

model of the internet is collapsing. We

had a deal. We paid humans to write

genuine things and in exchange they got

ad revenue. That deal is now dead

because why would an ad network pay a

human when a bot generates more clicks?

The algorithm doesn't care. The ad

networks don't care. Nobody in the chain

between creation and monetization has

any incentive whatsoever to care if it's

real. You could see this playing out

everywhere. Of YouTube's 100 fastest

growing channels last year, nearly 10

were fully AI generated. Slop was the

Miriam Webster word of the year for

2025. We went from selfie to slop in

about 10 years. That's basically the arc

of the internet in a single sentence.

And I mean, look, the internet was

always full of spam. Let's not pretend

it wasn't. But at least the spam used to

be stupid. You could see it coming from

a mile away. The grammar was You

had like three different fonts in a

single sentence. Nobody fell for that

Almost nobody. And now the spam is

smarter than you. It writes better than

you. The spam went out and got a college

degree and you're still on your parents'

phone plan. And Nikita, poor, poor

Nikita. I mean, he's still in there

fighting. He added a dislike button to

replies last week. That's basically like

the forefront of spam fighting today. A

freaking dislike button. And so, you're

probably wondering, okay, so what

happens next? What's the play? But this

isn't that kind of video. There's no

solution to this. This isn't a problem

we just fix. This is just what the

internet is now. And it's only going to

get weirder from here. Your inbox is

going to be so full of AI generated

emails that are so personalized and so

well written that the only way to know

if something is real is if you already

know the person who sent it. If some

stranger emails you a perfectly crafted

pitch, it's fake. If you get a LinkedIn

message that seems weirdly relevant to

like your exact career situation, fake.

You get a DM from a beautiful woman who

seems genuinely interested in your

personality, brother. Come on. The old

internet wasn't perfect, but at least

smart people could recognize the spam

from a mile away. In the new internet,

you won't be able to tell anymore

because the thing that's trying to fool

you was built from the ground up to be

better at fooling you than you are at

not being fooled. It's not a fair fight.

It's not even close. And in the

meantime, the only thing that still

means anything on this internet is the

people you already trust. It's not going

to be the individual posts or the

platforms or the algorithms. It's

people, specific humans who have earned

it over time. That's it. That's all

that's left.