I'm getting a couple of emails daily from bots that are clearly part of fake companies with fake websites that list fake employees, and trying to sell me fake services that I'll never get if I was to pay for.

I'm not surprised by this. It's par for the course for the times we live in, and I'm well aware that many people might really believe this stuff.

My only question is why the garbage factory hasn't gone into overdrive faster, and how long will it take until there's so much garbage online that the Internet and all forms of digital communication essentially break?

Its not like we haven't had spam and scams for decades (still waiting on my Nigerian prince). But generative AI allows it to be so much more varied and targeted and in greater volume.