Thoughts on Information Loss

In Honor of Banned Books week, as much as I love it, I think that the framework that it comes from could use some updates.

We all studied WWII. We all read "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984".  We all thought that future information loss would look like the information loss of the 20th century. 

The biggest information threat isn't with books being banned or burned.

The current threat to the information ecosystem is more like water damage than fire damage. 

Specific information isn't disappearing. Against the will of everyone who cares about consensus reality, all information and creative expression is instead being transformed into entirely worthless "content" by the relentless, ravenous blender that is the AI slop machine.

It is blending all human knowledge into intellectual grey goo, with no way to make a living in it, no way to verify it, and finally, no way to teach students to trust any of it, that I can think of. 

I am actively looking for ways to prove my last sentence wrong. Watch this space.