Welfare fraud is nullified by universal basic income. AI flood is nullified by (what completely sensible measure that vastly simplifies things but we're too mu

Welfare fraud is nullified by universal basic income. AI flood is nullified by (what completely sensible measure that vastly simplifies things but we're too much of 5 monkeys in a trenchcoat to see it?) Peter Watts has an interesting take in Rifters (a picture of our world going out with a well-insured corporate whimper), where the guy can't find a song he liked a few years back anymore because the world is not only undergoing an ecological catastrophe but also _running out of data storage space_ because the self-replicating digital "fauna" has taken over the Internet. It is time for us to... dare I say it... start _ignoring_ the voices, human or no? How do we stop the proliferation of meaningless content before the AI starts making unsolicited backups to our wetware - just like regular traditions do, without being considered "conscious" or "intelligent" even though they're also made of the collected traces of the intelligence of individuals?