The downside of living in a 'golden age of creation' is that said creation is also taken advantage of by unscrupulous actors looking to take advantage of users

The downside of living in a 'golden age of creation' is that said creation is also taken advantage of by unscrupulous actors looking to take advantage of users by flooding content gateways with scam artist level content. Steam for example has had to deal with people embedding miners in their games, asset flips and games designed for the sake of selling cards on the digital marketplace. Youtube has auto-generated videos designed to take advantage of their recommendation algorithm to reach people that are less capable of curating content themselves like kids. Not to mention the algorithmic rabbit hole you can be taken down leading into extreme conspiracy theory territory and viewbots which push non-popular content out of the way. And I could talk at lengths at how companies abuse the various app stores by creating keyword spaghetti such as 'Fortnight Battle Royale Mini Battleground Survival' designed in order to fool people while making money off of a barrage of in-game ads. Without curation, you're accepting that a certain portion of your users are going to be scammers and that some users will be scammed. Whether it's through gaming the views, the search engine or the recommendation algorithms.