I'm a huge Neal Stephenson fan. Cryptonomicon is to this day one of my all-time favorite books. Years ago now I read Anathem. It wasn't as good but it had some really interesting ideas.
One such idea was how the Internet was filled with garbage by all these agents (which were implied or stated were AI, I can't recall). They would subtly change things to be wrong. Why? Essentially to sell you a solution to this that filters out all the crap.
Currently we rely a lot on altruism for much of the information on the Internet (eg Wikipedia). AI agents will get harder and harder to differentiate from actual humans making Wikipedia edits. I don't think we're that far away from human-vs-AI Wikipedia edit wars.
I really wonder how much human knowledge will be destroyed by (intentional or otherwise) AI vandalism in the future.
One such idea was how the Internet was filled with garbage by all these agents (which were implied or stated were AI, I can't recall). They would subtly change things to be wrong. Why? Essentially to sell you a solution to this that filters out all the crap.
Currently we rely a lot on altruism for much of the information on the Internet (eg Wikipedia). AI agents will get harder and harder to differentiate from actual humans making Wikipedia edits. I don't think we're that far away from human-vs-AI Wikipedia edit wars.
I really wonder how much human knowledge will be destroyed by (intentional or otherwise) AI vandalism in the future.