Cross check against what? AI generated texts will flood the internet and burry the real knowledge just like SEO did before. But this time the fake knowledge will be less obvious and harder to check.

If that turns out to be true, the it looks like AI just gave universities a new reason for being.

What a shift from twenty years ago when optimism over “information superhighways” on the “world wide web” would end knowledge gatekeeping and educate the masses, to now— worries of AI slop and finely tuned ML algorithms frying older and younger generations’ brains, while information of human value gets buried, siloed, and paywalled, with no way to verify anything at all.