[jbc1]

If I ask the question myself then there's no step where a human expert has vetted the content and put their name on it. That curation and vouching is of value.

Now your mind might have immediately went "pffff as if they're doing that" and I agree but only to the extent that it largely wasn't happening prior to AI anyway. The vast majority of internet content was already low quality and rushed out by low paid writers who lacked expertise in what they were writing about. AI doesn't change that.

[flir]

Completely agree. We are used to thinking of authorship as the critical step. We're going to have to adjust to thinking of publication as the critical step. In an ideal world, publication of a piece would be seen as vouching for that piece. Putting your reputation on the line.

I wonder if we'll see a resurgence in reputation systems (probably not).

[tehjoker]

This is basically already how publications work.