Curating content is effectively a battle against advertising, and simultaneously a form of advertising—the difference is that you recommend stuff you like, as opposed to recommending stuff someone paid you to recommend. (And there are ways to blur the line, such as “I will only recommend the stuff I like, but only if you also pay me” or “I will recommended 90% the stuff I like, and 10% the stuff you pay me for, with or without disclosing which is which”. Even these two are difficult to distinguish from each other; I may be legally required to disclose whether someone has paid me, but not whether I genuinely liked the thing regardless.)
Do we then get the next layer of people recommending the recommenders? “This guy’s recommendations are always solid; with that guy it’s hit and miss.”
Possible use of AI: keep writing your random thoughts in a private diary. Then tell an AI to find the repeated topics and arrange them into a coherent article. (I wonder whether an AI could go through my comments written on LessWrong, weigh them by karma, and turn them into a book.)
Curating content is effectively a battle against advertising, and simultaneously a form of advertising—the difference is that you recommend stuff you like, as opposed to recommending stuff someone paid you to recommend. (And there are ways to blur the line, such as “I will only recommend the stuff I like, but only if you also pay me” or “I will recommended 90% the stuff I like, and 10% the stuff you pay me for, with or without disclosing which is which”. Even these two are difficult to distinguish from each other; I may be legally required to disclose whether someone has paid me, but not whether I genuinely liked the thing regardless.)
Do we then get the next layer of people recommending the recommenders? “This guy’s recommendations are always solid; with that guy it’s hit and miss.”
Possible use of AI: keep writing your random thoughts in a private diary. Then tell an AI to find the repeated topics and arrange them into a coherent article. (I wonder whether an AI could go through my comments written on LessWrong, weigh them by karma, and turn them into a book.)