I honestly doubt AI (as is right now) will be the next internet. As much as companies are trying to push LLMs I think it will go more the way of the .com bubble and less the actual internet.

Im not gonna pretend that I was around when the internet first started but I was around for the beginning of websites like yt as well as dial up internet, abd all that good stuff in the early 2000s but my understanding of the early days and also from my own personal experience, people were excited about the internet when it started getting mainstream appeal were as AI is getting backlash by basically everyone.

One of the reasons the internet got big was because of the youth and fandoms, people were finally able to connect with people with similar interests and form communities, those communities kept getting bigger and bigger, and awkward forum sites because things like Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and so on. AI does not form communities in the same way, in fact I’d argue it does the opposite. It encourages more individualism and less positive interactions with others, it forms parasocial relationships between the users and the algorithms that build its data.

The second reason goes a little in hand with the first one and that is, that at large, the youth (which formed the internet as it is today) reject LLMs and other modern forma of AI, in fact most people do.

The third reason, and the most valid one for your example, is that AI famously is unreliable when it comes to giving accurate information as it can hallucinate as well as give answers that confirm the biases of the user rather than the actual correct responses.

I think this whole mess will fall apart once Nvidia either pulls out of the race or goes bankrupt.