@cstross A ramping cycle of increasing computing power and resources as AI's race to generate ads, ad-blockers, click-fakers, click-faker-detectors, etc. Tell the story of the end collapse by tracing the history of the last advertisement (which, like most ads, no human ever views), the long pipeline of data and events through which it was generated, the enormous hardware and software stacks involved from 'start' to finish, and total disconnect from social and physical conditions of the world. .