Modeling trust on the AI-slop web
I am currently building a search engine. It seems a weird choice, and maybe unnecessary? So let me explain why I am doing this.
The Internet has been overrun by automated content creation machines. I guess because people and businesses have FOMO about appearing in search results (SEO) and LLM outputs (GEO? AEO?) and they want to sell their products and services. All that AI generated stuff is overwhelming the human-made Internet. Putting text on the internet is no longer proof-of-work. Because of this it has become very difficult for me to find good information. So I've been reading up on ways to deal with that.
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