This is the year of the RSS reader?
I was wondering recently whether AIs like ChatGPT had the potential to break search engines. Already today, I often end up on useless machine-generated pages (typically if I want a comparison between two "things" and type "A vs B"). Until now it's been pretty easy to see that it was machine-generated. But that will probably change.<p>Also, already today, depending on the topic, the search engine is completely useless and I end up going straight to e.g. Wikipedia or Stackoverflow or a reference website I trust (e.g. I want a technical explanation about how something works, and my search engine shows me ten pages on tutorials about where to click on my phone to use that something). Again, ChatGPT will make it easy to generate such low-quality content.<p>Long story short, I was wondering if that would bring RSS back: that would allow me to manually aggregate websites I trust. Maybe I could trust a friend and transitively trust the feeds they trust (à la PGP, even though PGP trust rings seem to be hated :)).<p>That would close the loop: algorithms came to help organise the growing quantity of data, then started flooding the world with generated data (what they were initially built to control). And now somehow we would have to go back to manual treatment using old school trust (with RSS, or similar), because AIs can't differentiate the good content from the bad one.