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I wonder if the rise of skepticism will actually lead to people decreasing their use of the internet. Once the internet is full of crap (like 1000x what it curr
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
I wonder if the rise of skepticism will actually lead to people decreasing their use of the internet. Once the internet is full of crap (like 1000x what it currently is) and everyone realizes nothing is real, or can be trusted. Will people turn away, and start reading books and talking to neighbors again. Could the new renaissance be talking to other humans again, because face-to-face personal contact would be only form that can be trusted to be real.
- thfuran 3y agoWhy wouldn't the books be AI-generated too?
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoYou are right. That could happen too. I guess I was assuming there would still be editors and staff, some infrastructure that checks the contents of a book before printing. But guess that could go out the window too. Of course that could be what happens. An entire new industry of "Certifications", companies that "Verify" media.
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoThe New York times and Washington Post spilled a lot of ink fact-checking Donald Trump. Did it help? (Honest question; I don't know the answer.)
- khalladay 3y agoWe might also wind up kinda like the book "Rainbow's End", where the internet just has too much crap to parse, so people subscribe to a "reality sphere" that filters the internet into a single view that is shared by anyone else who wants to see that sphere.