@cstross@wandering.shop I think this is a major reason why LLMs are being pushed so heavily and against all financial logic by these massive corporations and billionaires. Though it always has to some extent, in the age of “AI” money literally equals truth. If fact is just the statistically most likely combination of words in a training set, then those with the most resources, who can buy the most domains and publish their propaganda the fastest/most completely, will always be “right.” And since we have ceded all control of our attention to the same billionaires, they can simultaneously strangle all real content creators by denying them any traffic.