It seems like the leaders of all of these online platforms are going to just bury their heads in the sand and pretend that this massive problem isn't one.
This AI trend is absolutely going to destroy many (most?) of these companies. For better or worse, the new age of the internet is already here.
I have noticed a lot of these articles that just make no sense at all starting to appear in my weekly email to the point that I probably won't renew next year if it stays this way, so it isn't just "nobody reading them".
I'm not sure of the exact machinations, but the times that my posts have been boosted, it's always been by a publication on Medium where a human editor has read my content and 1) asked that I submit to their publication and 2) submitted to Medium for boosting.
Seems like this type of filter -- as long as they actually keep humans in the loop -- can potentially work to keep high quality content more visible.
Of course, even mentioning the f-word is forbidden, so...