AI may have already peaked.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/AI needs non-AI data to learn from. If you feed it data generated by AI, it focuses on specific facts to the exclusion of reality - patterns in the learning algorithm reinforce patterns in the previous generation of output - leading to a state called model collapse where it goes insane.
And the internet is flooded with AI slop, so filtering it out at this point is prohibitively expensive.