Neal Stephenson sometimes gets things wrong, but the concept of 'bogons' he references in Anathem is very nearly exactly this. It describes the concept of a glo

Neal Stephenson sometimes gets things wrong, but the concept of 'bogons' he references in Anathem is very nearly exactly this. It describes the concept of a global network so crammed with machine-generated nonsense of varying quality that it requires GAN-style discrimination agents to pre-filter things prior to search. This[0] HN comment from more than 10 years ago references the same phenomenon. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5058185