We might be entering a new phase of the internet… not defined by smarter AI — but by AI-generated noise. Developers are already seeing it: • Open-source projects getting flooded with low-quality AI bug reports • Maintainers wasting hours reviewing things that were never real issues • Security programs shutting down because they can’t filter signals from spam • Tools meant to help productivity are now overwhelming the very systems they rely on This isn’t a future problem. It’s starting right now. As AI gets cheaper and faster to use, the cost of generating content drops to zero — But the cost of verifying truth is still human. That imbalance could reshape: → Open-source collaboration → Email and communication trust → Online identity and verification → How we separate real work from synthetic output The next big challenge in AI may not be intelligence. It may be authentication. The platforms that solve this problem will define the next era of the web. --- Do you think AI will m...