Thinking about the torrent of garbage that's about pour forth from ChatGPT, I was reminded of this prescient passage from Anathem (part 7 "Feral"):

'I'll have to get back to you on that,' Sammann said, grimacing. "Most of the information on this topic is crap."

"What do you mean by that" Crade demanded. We all looked at him, because in an instant he had become markedly defensive.

Sammann raised his eyes from the screen of the the jeeiah and gazed interestedly at Crade. He let a few moments go by, then responded in a calm and matter-of-fact tone: "Anyone can post information on any topic. The vast majority of what's on the Reticulum is, therefore, crap. It has to be filtered. The filtering systems are ancient. My people have been improving them, and their interfaces, since the time of the Reconstitution. They are to us what the Mynster is to Fra Erasmas and his kind. When I look at a given topic I don't just see information about that topic. I see meta-information that tells me what the filtering systems learned when they were conducting the search. If I look up analemma, the filtering system tells me that only a few sources have provided information about this and that they are mostly of high repute - they are avout. If I look up the name of a popular music star who just broke up with her boy friend, Sammann continued, nodding at a tearful female on the speely, "the filtering system tells me that a vast amount of data has been posted on this topic quite recently, mostly of very low repute. When I look up the excavation of the Temple of Orithena on the Island of Ecba, the filtering system informs me that people of very high and very low repute have been posting on this topic, slowly but steadily, for seven centuries."

And then a few pages later, there is this intriguing bit:

"Asynchronous, symmetrically anonymized, moderated open-cry repute auction. Don't even bother trying to parse that. The acronym is pre-Reconstitution. There hasn't been a true asamocra for 3600 years. Instead we do other things that serve the same purpose and we call them by the old name. In most cases, it takes a few days for a provably irreversible phase transition to occur in the reputon glass never mind -and another day after that to make sure you aren't just being spoofed by ephemeral stochastic nucleation. The point being, I was not granted the access I wanted until recently. He smiled and a hunk of ice fell off his whiskers and landed on the control panel of his jeejah. "I was going to say until today' but this damned day never ends."

For many years I have been trying to think of how this "asamocra" might work - for sure we are going to need something on these lines in the future...