>Sites like reddit/4chan/hn become less popular due to generative AI spam.

I am rather hopeful that it will be an incentive for such sites evolving to combat the problem.

I believe it all goes down to the ranking problem across the attention economy. What content do people see? Once we agree that we would prefer more high quality content instead of stuff triggering cognitive biases and dopamine output for tribalism it becomes a technical problem of how to identify high/low quality content. After all, what does it matter if a bot is writing something as long as it is actually good?

I strongly agree about the CRISPR babies. I'll eat my shirt if there aren't already hundreds if not thousands of CRISPR babies already, modified in secret.