I think you're metaphor is a bit convoluted :-) but I think you're theory here is important. There are a lot of concerns I have with AI in this area. For "fac

I think you're metaphor is a bit convoluted :-) but I think you're theory here is important. There are a lot of concerns I have with AI in this area. For "facts", i.e. who were the signers of the declaration of independence, efficient search with one answer is probably fine, but for anything remotely controversial, the idea that we're going to accept the one answer of the AI is really problematic, and I think will lead to what I've been calling AI-Think (ala group think) This is sort of directly adjacent to what you're describing. Instead of reading perspectives by different bloggers, or different sources, you'll be getting all of your perspectives from an identical sort of worldview, instead of browsing a feed with a whole bunch of different personalities, it's basically a feed of one, and as you're describing, the feed will be defenitionally middle-ground milquetoast. Paul Graham said that he was replacing most of his google searches with chatgpt, and I trust that Paul Graham is a smart guy aware of this risk, but it does make me wonder, if you're using AI to do all the research for your writing, how does that affect you're writing when your sources become a monoculture. How does it collectively affect all art inspired by AI?