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IMO this is the big problem with the internet as it exists today - there is no incentive for producing accurate, unbiased information and non-sensationalist opi

IMO this is the big problem with the internet as it exists today - there is no incentive for producing accurate, unbiased information and non-sensationalist opinions. My greatest hope for the future is that somehow we can incentivize people to produce "good" information for AI based assistants and move away from the rage/shock based advertising model that most of the internet currently uses. Personally I would rather pay a few cents for a query that produces valuable results and doesn't put me in a bad mood than pay with my time and attention like we do today. AI systems will absolutely need to be able to identify the training sources with every result (even if it is coming from several sources) and those sources should be compensated. IMO that's the only fair model for both image and text generation that is based on authors and artists work.

andsoitis 4y ago
> problem with the internet as it exists today - there is no incentive for producing accurate, unbiased information and non-sensationalist opinions. I think this problem is orthogonal to the internet as medium, though I’ll concede that it has proven to be the biggest amplifier of this dynamic. Correct (or correct as far as humans know, or most likely correct, etc.) costs money to create. False or completely made up information costs nothing, plus has the potential upside of sensationalism, thus further increasing its ROI. Agree with your point about developing more incentives for correct information and penalties for false.
int_19h 4y ago
It's not just that there's no incentive for that, but there's a very strong incentive to do the exact opposite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc