I’ve been predicting for years that the next stop for “social” media is a purely machine generated slop feed designed to keep people addicted. No human creators at all.

The question is whether people will eventually get bored with this stuff or if it actually will mesmerize people for huge fractions of their waking lives.

If the latter, I suspect we will outlaw it eventually. It’d be like legalizing hard opiates, literally, but minus the ODs and health damage.