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The information coursing through the world around us already exceeds our ability to grasp it by high orders of magnitude.

Three channels of television over 8 hours was already more than anyone had time to take in.

AI might be able to create a summarizing layers and relays that help manage that.

AI isn't going to create infinite bandwidth. It's as likely to increase entropy and introduce noise.



It's not that it makes more channels for all of us, it creates a channel for each of us.


There are already more channels than that, as bots training off the media produced by bots will just continue to grow.




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