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> Instead of a group of links that you'd personally evaluate and mentally rank in terms of usefulness (thereby building your own bullshit detector over time)...

This sounds an awful lot like email's "Spam" folder, an AI driven bullshit detector that I am particularly fond of.



Did you hear how Google made a decision that political email wasn’t spam prior to last election? So that AI driven filter is, at least, partly influenced by political bias.

What about the AI that drives YouTube auto play so somehow kids watch horror clips and everyone else gets nudged towards Jordan Peterson for some reason?

Having more of our internet and communication filtered by ostensibly “neutral” AI will get lead very weird and probably not great places.




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