[vineyardmike]

I think this will rapidly accelerate a set of closely related trends that were rapidly growing in the internet: curation, trust, and reputation.

In a world with the massive aggregating ability of google, amazon, Facebook, etc, we've become deprived already of truth. Whether its the alto-junk filling up search results, fake reviews on cheap knockoffs on amazon, or the latest mis-information campaign on Facebook, it becomes hard to sort through the endless options (curation), trust the reviews, and find reliable sources.

People already search on reddit for some review, because they don't trust Amazon reviews, but what happens when reddit becomes GPT playgrounds? You'll see a further rise in organizations that either sell Curation (Target, Costco), reputation (Apple App Store) or sell Trust (Consumer Reports, Wirecutter). People flock to influencer YouTubers for product reviews, because its harder to fake, and people will build new business around such solutions.

[spritefs]

> I think this will rapidly accelerate a set of closely related trends that were rapidly growing in the internet: curation, trust, and reputation.

But will it scale?

[vineyardmike]

Who knows but that might not be the most important factor.

> One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale

I’m not going to explain someone else’s quote, but in my perspective, in a world of limitless abundance, perhaps trying to do everything isn’t the winning strategy.

If Amazon has every product ever made available (and 75% of it is cheap drop shipped junk), there’s extra value in being the trustworthy brand that doesn’t have everything, but instead the right things.

If Twitter is full of bots and misinformation, then there’s value in being a small mastadon instance of hand curated friends where you can trust everyone.

If Google can index every website, and most of it ends up as GPT lies, then being a librarian that can vet sounded for you is immensely valuable.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

[spritefs]

Also something to note is that the focus of the article is preventative as opposed to creating new outlets. Just because reuters is there doesn't mean everyone will read it, but a good number of people could see content that's not as reputable

> If Twitter is full of bots and misinformation, then there’s value in being a small mastadon instance of hand curated friends where you can trust everyone.

I agree with this, but the way that we use the internet and media might not be the way that most people use it. If the focus is preventative, I have no idea how curation could scale in a way that prevents bad actors from reaching an audience, just because there's so much stuff to curate