> Will this fact make us seek out more personal content from sources we can put a face and a name to?
I've been mostly doing this for years now, because of the general decline in the quality of websites that has been going on for a long, long time.
> A personal web of trust that sharpens the line between content made by humans and AIs?
The problem, of course, is what you alluded to -- how can we know what's made by humans and what's made by AI? I think that my already limited use of the web is likely to decline to nearly zero because of that issue.
> The problem, of course, is what you alluded to -- how can we know what's made by humans and what's made by AI? I think that my already limited use of the web is likely to decline to nearly zero because of that issue.
Do you not think that a web of trust could work as a bulwark against this trend? I imagine long-time bloggers that already have a good reputation can help seed trust by recommend other people they know personally and can vouch for.
Yes, but to a very limited degree. In order to be effective, it has to be a web of people who personally know the people they're vouching for, and I'd be less inclined to take the word of people too many hops out from me. I may trust my direct friends judgements, but I'll have lesser trust in the judgement of friends-of-friends, and so on.
But in any case, what it means is that I'll have a small "personal web" of sites, and that would be the entire webosphere to me. It's a bunker kind of situation, and pretty much the opposite of what the web really should be.
I've been mostly doing this for years now, because of the general decline in the quality of websites that has been going on for a long, long time.
> A personal web of trust that sharpens the line between content made by humans and AIs?
The problem, of course, is what you alluded to -- how can we know what's made by humans and what's made by AI? I think that my already limited use of the web is likely to decline to nearly zero because of that issue.