@tomw Also not strictly related to knowledge or books, but this was the exact argument a lot of people used back when Steam opened the floodgates and allowed pretty much anyone who wanted to, to be listed on their service.

I think most agree there is value in curation, but that obviously depends on exactly who is doing the curation.

@tomw Is this where we use ChatGPT to generate Borges' Library of all Possible Books?

@tomw @tomw You seem to be mixing up a library, whose contents are selected by humans, with a corpus. If you think libraries are synonymous with physical books, you're a few decades behind.

@tomw I wrote a paper on a related issue during my masters degree - the impact of 'deepfakes' - same thing, different medium - being a breakdown of trust. And we've already seen the impact of that.

@tomw Somehow I'm reminded of Eden, by Stanislaw Lem, particularly a bit at the beginning about automated factories that produced bizarre objects that were recycled as soon as they were produced.