We rely on the Internet to store our intimate memories, but we have also delegated collective experience to it, and the Internet is fragile. “We can lose part of our memory as a society because a file format becomes obsolete,” professor Nanna Bonde Thylstrup told EL PAÍS.

Researchers warn of the risk of Internet poisoning, a paradox that says that if the internet is saturated with large volumes of inane content generated with AI, its quality will be reduced and it will no longer serve to feed future language models.