[lelandfe]

Sure, but now now I – an idiot – can publish a podcast on... "Bayesian Multilevel Models," and fool almost everyone into thinking I know anything about it.

I've seen YouTubers provide tutorials on auto-creating YouTube videos and podcast episodes on niche scientific subjects, on how to build seemingly-reputable brands with zero ongoing effort. That is all totally novel. Being able to lie or be wrong before is orthogonal to the real issue: scale.

[alganet]

Scale has already been achieved with money (advertisement revenue) and influence (politics agendas, fame) on a viral platform.

What this tech brings is speed. If Google did it, someone else will also do it.

[throwthrowuknow]

All the more reason to empower people to review, rate, comment on, block, downvote, and otherwise signal when something is incorrect.

[alganet]

You realize it's a feedback loop, don't you?

If the people interacting are not reliable, then it means the system is not reliable. Karma points, youtube views, thumbs ups, likes... none of those things have any significant value as an indicator of correctedness.