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You, for one, welcome our new AI overlords?

Blogs have the enormous advantage of being decentralized and harder to manipulate and censor. We get "more truthful and aligned outcomes" from centralized control only so long as your definition of "truth" and "alignment" match the definitions used by the centralized party.

I don't have enough faith in Sam Altman or in all current and future US governments to wish that future into existence.

But it would disincentive those who create knowledge? AFAIK, most of the highly specific knowledge comes from a small communities where shared goal and socialization with like-minded individuals are incentive to keep acquiring and describing knowledge for community-members. Would it really be helpful to put an AI between them?

First issue, silos of information.

Second issue: who decides the weights of sources. this is the reason why every nation must have culturally aligned AIs defending their ways of living in the information sphere.