It's dumb and I hate it. It's exactly the same with job applications: AI generated resumes and AI generated cover letters read by AIs, we might as well save the compute time and send bullet points, but no we all have to continue the dance even though the music stopped. So many bright minds working on such degenerate technology... the flip side is that I spend less and less time online as LLMs greatly accelerated the slow rot that had taken hold of the web

The way you described it, that's not a problem at all, but a clear improvement. Thing is, every industry already has "a high volume producer of generated content" that, except for the last case, arose organically, due to reasons other than trying to confuse the reader. The creation of "a high volume summarizer" doesn't automatically mean an arms race.

Medical claims won't be growing in pages just because a doctor can parse them a bit faster. They may grow initially, because it's likely that people's mental capacity is what keeps other factors from ballooning the claims further - but it'll level out when some other practical limit is reached. Same with coding and PRs, same with research and all kinds of activities - except advertising.

There, AI will (already is) causing an arms race, because the "high volume producer"'s goal is to overwhelm their victims, so if the victims start protecting themselves with AI tools, the producer will keep increasing production to compensate. But that's not the fault of AI - it's the fault of allowing the advertising industry to exist.

Personally all I can hope for is that people start seeing it for what it is and just shorten their communication, foregoing the use of LLMs.