“You might move toward having a curator.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23721323/ask-jeeves-remember-when-google-search-worked-ai

There has been a view — advanced largely by people who are hyping their investments — that AI will devalue human labor. But what if the rise of AI-written nonsense makes humans more valuable? If you want a human result, not some machine-generated SEO bait, you may want a human involved in the process of search. You might move toward having a curator.

Not much to add here—just another appearance of that theme I keep thinking about.

This is more about discovery through search than social discovery, but the idea’s not necessarily that different. Social discovery arguably occupies a midpoint on the spectrum of human content to algorithmic glurge—it’s human-made but algorithmically distorted, optimized toward whatever the wider Internet has reverse-engineered about the preferences of the platform it’s on.

Currently reading: EARTHDIVERS vol. 1, by Stephen Graham Jones and Davide Gianfelice.