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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by brador on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:59AM (#50424405)
Trustable curation is the answer.
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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by za_creature on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:03AM (#50424450)
Don't worry, they'll slopify that too. TikTok is great at this.
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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by soon_to_be_sb on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:06AM (#50424475)
Goodhart would beg to differ...
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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by brendoelfrendo on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:31AM (#50424715)
I've already seen it impacting community curators on Steam; their inboxes are overflowing with vibe-coded slop. Curation is important, but it doesn't really scale; it just shifts the need to be a "human slop filter" from you to someone else.
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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by za_creature on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:37AM (#50426246)
It also creates excellent incentives for corruption.

TV is a perfect example of this: you only have so much screen time to allocate to the news, so which subjects do you "curate"?

I bet LLMs would love to curate the internet for us from all of that slop.

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