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We've been living in the (golden age?) of crowdsourced information for a while now.

AI-generated content at scale (especially if it has marketing dollars behind it trying to influence future models) may well cause a resurgence of curated / authenticated information services.

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We didn’t stop trusting “authenticated sources” because of “crowdsourced information”.

We stopped trusting “authenticated sources” because they constantly lie to fit whatever agenda is being pushed.

I can say with certainty that genie is not going back in the bottle no matter how much censoring websites past their prime implement.

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I read the economist on a weekly basis and can confidently say that that form of curated professional journalism is much better than random partisans on twitter loudly shouting about everything

This is somewhat hilarious because the Economist is famous for its unsigned articles and IIRC lacks citations, such that you have no way to verify whether the person writing them has any expertise in whatever they’re spouting off about. It’s effectively a middle-brow subreddit in print.

While I agree that the Economist is infamous for having the occasional-to-frequent terrible take under a common pseudonym, I think you're wildly overselling the quality of most mid-brow subreddits (Or have a definition of "middle brow" that only includes the top 90th percentile).

I’ve read the Economist and its depth of insight is equivalent to your average top comment on r/Neoliberal (and I don’t mean that as compliment the subreddit).

> Here are 5 prompts YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE AI REPLACES YOUR JOB

I think this is what is going to cause me to delete twitter.

Whatever the cause, I doubt you'll regret it.

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