It takes humans to distill, research, and vouch for information.
- Humans did that for the web (deciding what to link to) and writing (deciding what to bother writing in the first place).
- What to link to and what to write was aligned with what the creator found valuable.
- Naturally authentic.
- That gave a consistent bias amongst the noise for what humans find valuable.
- LLMs then absorbed it through osmosis in their training.
- LLMs can't vouch for new things in an authentic way.
- When human publishing slows down, how will we synthesize new knowledge?