On the bright side I used to be extremely online but shit has been getting steadily worse for so long that I don't even have to set limits for myself anymore because there's like 30 minutes per day of worthwhile internet.
Yeah, the main sites are somehow managing to squander their infinite content factories. It’s like the procedurally generated video games where everything is theoretically unique, but you learn to recognize the patterns and everything feels the same.
I think that if game companies can find good corpuses to train on and train their own LLMs with less strict respectability filters, using AI for NPC dialogue could be a legitimate boon to immersion. It’s one of the few cases where I could see LLMs being ethically sourced (for example using the massive amounts of text in The Elder Scrolls universe to train on) and not displacing too many jobs since there would still need to be writers for main quests and for guiding plot points on random encounters.