I think you might be right and I think I'll like some of the consequences and hate some of the others.

More in-person stuff feels like a win to me (and I say this as someone who probably counts as introverted).

Not being able to trust any online interactions anymore? Seems like a new height in what was already a negative.

Agreed. I don't think there is any saving the internet as a social space long term. And I'm not entirely sad about that either. I think a return to in person interaction, public social spaces, and a retreat from social media would do the world a lot of good.

Though there is a nightmarish possibility that people just accept this and willingly interact purely with bots, giving up all real relationships for AI ones.

linkedin is completely destroyed now. There are tons of ai bots there but real humans are now fronts for AI. So you cant even trust content from from ppl you know.

identity serivce is not useful because that person might be a real person but they might just be a pipe to ai like we see on linkedin.