alt Hacker NewsIt's going to follow the path that the internet took. At the beginning of the internet, most pages were created by individuals. Even company web sites were normally created by a small team. You could trust the information. Then the ad networks started along with SEO and content marketing.
Right now you can relatively trust LLM results but then people will find a way to manipulate the output and ads will get inserted and trust will be lost.
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A similar arc seems to happen with marketplaces unless they are rigorously policed. Forums and social media too.
Look at Etsy. At first it was a good market for genuine hand made and niche goods. Now it’s flooded with hustlers doing drop shop scams and slop.
They’re good for a while until the bad actors catch up.
im expecting that an LLM will arise out of this that is about as unbiased as is electrically possible, and will become the wikipedia of llm's.