I came online in the mid 1990s, along with the rest of America, and for the first few years of my internet experience, my primary threat model was someone on AOL finding out that I was 12 (A/S/L and after all, no one on the internet knew if I was a dog.)

Based on my priors, I thought that this would be the world my kids would grow up into as well, and as they got older, I started preparing them against the dangers of strangers on the internet.

But the explosion of generative AI over the past two years has brought to light something even worse: the problems we encounter on the internet today are not because of people, but because of the lack of them