Fast, free, or fact: pick any two. The current internet is fast and free, but is increasingly non-factual. An alternative emphasizing meaningful facts and observations will almost necessarily be slower.

We might even be able to use pressed bleached dead trees as a backup medium.

I only have so much time in the day. I can only consume so much content. I don't need AI or machine learning to filter a firehose of content.

My friends provide a human scale stream of recommendation that I trust much more than a profit driven algorithm.

Also, stop using Amazon for delivery of said content as they are part of the issue.

That said this won't happen and platforms will shift from metrics like views to things like number of uploads or "shares" to show "growth".

And how fast can I throw content at that AI-checker and get an AI vs human score?

It shouldn't matter if something was written by AI or human if it is high quality , fact-checked. But I think AI (or the way we use it) still needs some improvement for that.

"still" ? This isn't even in the purview of current technology, afaik.

Those names, brands that have been established for decades, are how I curate. I feel reasonably certain BBC and FX will continue serving valuable content for the foreseeable future. Random YouTube channel I've never heard of or all-caps company name on Amazon not so much.

I hope so but there are forces in the UK (and I suppose outside it) who see the BBC as "unfair" competition and will continually attempt to defund/destroy it.

I haven't watched terrestrial tv in a decade or more, pretty sure there's a generation of UK kids who will never bother because youtube/twitch/netflix is better as far as they're concerned.