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This is the real information apocalypse. Machines cloning knowledge ad infinitum with increasing amounts of real content drowning in an endless ocean of... ads;
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
This is the real information apocalypse. Machines cloning knowledge ad infinitum with increasing amounts of real content drowning in an endless ocean of... ads; Economic propaganda.
Until content itself is cryptographically signed, there's no verifying where it come from or how true it is, if it ever were.
- d110af5ccf 5y ago> Until content itself is cryptographically signed At which point you have to determine which signatories to trust. Which is the same issue we currently have - which publishers (ie websites) should the search engine trust (ie rank highly)? So really what we need is a more robust method of attributing publisher quality. Except that perception of quality varies drastically between different consumers. Also, most solutions you might propose quickly start looking an awful lot like a distributed web of trust but no one has ever managed to pull that off at scale so far.