AI can cheaply fake almost every signal we traditionally used to judge quality. I now see this pattern everywhere, in open source, in education, in research, all breaking at the same time. I find signaling theory useful for diagnosing what is happening and why it is so disorienting, and signaling theory and adjacent literature can provide the vocabulary to discuss possible solutions.
Not entirely onboard with how negative the perspective is but agree with the increase of noise making it harder to find real signals. This might sound simplistic but I just see it as the progression of technology and it’s just something you deal with like getting old. There are plenty of waves in technology that created new problems and it always leads to new solutions.