[Rebelgecko]

Anathem by Neal Stephenson has a great subplot about this. The information age has been a bit stunted because there's too much crap[1] on the internet. Companies sprung up selling filters that would block websites with low-quality or AI generated information. Eventually these companies realized they could drum up business by generating low quality[2] content themselves, especially if they could get it past their competitor's filters. The end result was that the internet became a convoluted morass of bullshit and lies, difficult for non-experts to extract useful knowledge

[1]: Or maybe CRAAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAAP_test

[2]: They quickly realized the trick is make high quality low quality content. 100 pages of gibberish is way less effective than a convincing essay that happens to include a few key falsehoods.

[joken0x]

It seems to be a loop of information from which there is no way out, that devours the information and stirs it among piles of garbage that it generates without stopping. Labyrinth and crypt at the same time, growing and churning more all the time. I think we have to start a serious effort to collect and save the human creation, otherwise it will become a hidden treasure buried among layers of artificial garbage. Imagine, if it can be difficult for us to distinguish the human content from the synthetic, how will it be for future generations who will not even have the living context of our time? And who will already be more accustomed to these synthetic contents than to the properly human ones.

[kelseyfrog]

How will this change how we evaluate content? Will digital media be socially and culturally devalued? Will print media gain greater status? Live spoken word? Curated content with a reputation layer? Obviously it's pure speculation, but let's indulge for a moment.

[apsdsm]

His latest book, “Fall, or Dodge In Hell” also uses the same idea as a major plot device. And alike all things written by Neal Stephenson, is amazing.