I think it's even worse than that. I think we'll see a shift in incentives for writing content. If websites are used as the source for AI engines that people rely on, those websites are effectively becoming the source of truth for everything.
Right now I can tell if a website is blog spam SEO garbage, but I'm not sure if that'll be possible once everything is "laundered" into a homogeneous looking result.
I think there's going to be incentive to create huge quantities of "data" because having the highest volume makes you the source of truth for a topic. So, rich companies and people will be buying compute like crazy so they can generate tons of AI spam so another AI surfaces their viewpoint as "fact".
Ugh yeah, I hadn't even realized what a serious vulnerability it will be when large corporations and foreign governments start to flood the web with their preferred "facts". Google and Microsoft will gladly slurp up all of that training data. Modern Google doesn't even bother to exclude blatant spam domains from SERPs, there's no way they are going to combat this problem effectively.
This really is looking more and more like the death of the open web. Curated and closed communities will be the only places left to get authentic information online.
Right now I can tell if a website is blog spam SEO garbage, but I'm not sure if that'll be possible once everything is "laundered" into a homogeneous looking result.
I think there's going to be incentive to create huge quantities of "data" because having the highest volume makes you the source of truth for a topic. So, rich companies and people will be buying compute like crazy so they can generate tons of AI spam so another AI surfaces their viewpoint as "fact".
The future is going to suck.