The beginning of your article brought me back to a time I learned so much from. I had a similar start when I worked in political comms and, like you describe, so many of the publications that oppo research could land in don’t exist anymore.
The publishing of research publicly used to largely be reserved for signaling to outside groups. I’d bet the main benefit now is influencing AI answers, whether directly or making the information available for others to land somewhere externally (and for AI to then consider it more credible to repeat).
The beginning of your article brought me back to a time I learned so much from. I had a similar start when I worked in political comms and, like you describe, so many of the publications that oppo research could land in don’t exist anymore.
The publishing of research publicly used to largely be reserved for signaling to outside groups. I’d bet the main benefit now is influencing AI answers, whether directly or making the information available for others to land somewhere externally (and for AI to then consider it more credible to repeat).
Honestly shocking how much things have changed in such a short period of time.