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Neal Stephenson in his book Fall riffed on a near-future like this, in which young people no longer rely on the recommendations of social media and news aggrega
by pshc 4y ago
Neal Stephenson in his book Fall riffed on a near-future like this, in which young people no longer rely on the recommendations of social media and news aggregators. Instead, they outsource their feeds to a mix of human and AI curators.
- hguant 4y agoThis was also a (secondary) feature in Stephenson's _Anathem_; their equivalent of the Web was so full of viruses, artificially intelligent spam, and what we'd now call disinformation (and network effects of that disinformation) that it was impossible to discern any information of value by accessing it directly. Only by using a sophisticated program that was constantly filtering data could the characters determine what was _probably_ happening in the world.