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An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

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Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists, but it's polluted with misinformation, disinformation.

In his 2019 novel " Fall ," science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagines a future where the internet is largely unusable.

But the output of chatbots may represent the greatest danger to the future of the web, he says.

High-quality text that hasn't already been strip-mined is becoming scarce, leading to an "emerging crisis in content".

Or will an infinite number of chatbots produce so much tainted verbiage that finding accurate information online becomes like searching for a needle in a haystack? The internet is often described as one of humanity's great achievements, but like any other resource, it's important to give serious thought to how it is maintained and managed.

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72

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66

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60

Article tone

informal

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English

Language complexity

56

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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Time-value

long-living

External references

23

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