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 "published" 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.