What is worth salvaging here?

The internet is broken. Not completely. Because you have crowd-sourced projects like Wikipedia and the ability to look up recently published papers from MIT, but when you search on Google, the algorithm tells us what we want to hear for clicks. It moves to the top of the marketer that paid for that spot, not what is best. It’s not just Google but how social media is designed.

The point is, the internet, in some ways, is better than ever, and yet the parts that don’t work are the worst it has ever been. They are making it unusable at times. We can see this during political cycles.

Of course, there are some programs and devices that break that model. But the question I keep returning is: How is this improving humanity? And the answer doesn’t feel intuitively reasonable. I hope that AI will break it so we can start over and, in the process, create a better internet.