Generative AI collapses information diversity while engagement algorithms amplify extreme tails
abenitezburraco · x · 2026-09-13
The author lays out a symmetric failure mode for social learning in digital environments: engagement-based algorithms push copied information toward the tails of the distribution, amplifying rare and extreme content, while generative AI does the opposite—collapsing the distribution toward the mode and erasing diversity. Both distort what learners copy, just in opposite directions.
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