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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9808791" data-attributes="member: 6790260">It's been this way for at least 15 years, probably longer. AI, and before it the podcast boom, and before that the (first) YT boom, have just made it really obvious that the internet is full of false starts and misleading stuff. I actually did a report on a related topic back in 2010/2011--the fact that the scientific community had been coasting on their hugely high popularity ratings for ages, but doubts were mounting and they weren't doing anything to address the problem. And then guess what happened? Yeah. The mis- and disinformation were always there. They've just gotten louder.Or, if you prefer? The information pipeline is wider and has higher pressure, so significantly more information flows through it. But the % concentration of real info vs bull$#!% has not changed--so, as a result, you will experience more BS, even though you are also getting more info.Sort of like a conversation I've had recently about a certain firearm-hoister and their fixed rate of misfire in a particular game system about locating paths <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>