Well we actually have some long established systems for ferreting out valuable information wheat from the chaff. These systems have checks and balances, and the people in them have phds and reputations we can see and consider. There is oversight, editors, auditors, tradition and hundreds of years of learning. The platforms do not want to recreate this scaffolding, that is not the business they want to be in, so they have been experimenting with relying on those structures to determine quality, instead of simply what is popular on their platforms. Literally learning from history.
That’s where we are right now. It might not be enough to satisfy legislators.
Well we actually have some long established systems for ferreting out valuable information wheat from the chaff. These systems have checks and balances, and the people in them have phds and reputations we can see and consider. There is oversight, editors, auditors, tradition and hundreds of years of learning. The platforms do not want to recreate this scaffolding, that is not the business they want to be in, so they have been experimenting with relying on those structures to determine quality, instead of simply what is popular on their platforms. Literally learning from history.
That’s where we are right now. It might not be enough to satisfy legislators.