But what if it kills current ad-tech as we know it (paying to show ads on random sites without any way to verify that the site is legit), and the flow of ad money for legitimate goods turns back to journalism, magazines and other publications?
That would be half a trillion[1] redirected to regular people just from Google Ads.
[1] snatched my number from here: https://pixis.ai/blog/2025-google-advertising-benchmarks-for...
The other day I watched a YouTube video on a work machine with no history and got 2 AI generated video ads for scam products before the video played.
An AI generated man talking about his product building journey to make a pressure washer hose that didn't need power (in the AI video it didn't even have a water supply connected!) that was going to be banned in a week because it was too powerful so buy now.
I've seen AI slop before and scam ads before but the combination of the two gave me some real tingly spider-sense that things are going to get worse and that some unethical people will make a lot of money from it so be in no hurry to stop it.