ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
If you think of the knowledge base of the internet as a living thing, ChatGPT is a like a virus that now threatens its life.<p>This is the same process SEO spam caused for search - it hampers the nature by which things function and the river needs to reroute (pagerank then usage metadata) to replace the lost signal.<p>ChatGPT is more of an existential threat because it will propagate to infect other knowledge bases. Luke Wikipedia relies on &quot;published&quot; facts as an authority, but ChatGPT output is going to wind up as a source one way or another. And worse, then ChatGPT will digest its own excrement, worsening its own results further.<p>All signs point to this strengthening the value of curation and authenticated sources.