Exactly this. In germany we had a couple of scandals where somebody became a bestseller author by buying his own books and gifting them to everybody he meets in bulk. So he basically paid for his sales himself and was of course also able to claim a tax benefit for it.
Truth is not a democratic process and very hard to verify just by using data.
and how are you going to set up those experts for "your search ai"?`
Because its really going to be different from the one your neighbour has.
How do you select turstworthy people on a new topic?
Does every search start with "hmmm i found 6521 people blogging about this, please click on the trustworthy avatars you like"?
The concept you are trying to apply here, will just lead to your own bubble. Im not even going to go into detail of "orange men knows best" but this example alone should shock you.
The mixing of random and "trusted" content is already what is being done with pagerank.
Truth is an agreement and trust is superficial. I know, I know there is truth in code, but that does not mean that the bigger concept aligns.
I mean damn, we went as far as defining math as the "universal truth" because its replicateable. I dont think anybody wanted to convert reality to numbers but here we are represeting them this way. But hey, if you can develop a mathematical formular why blogspost A about "how to setup your linux computer" is much more true that blogpost B im really all ears.
and that my friends is how the internet will die. Exactly like this.
The idea that someone reputeable is always right and and expert in his domain could not be further fetched from the truth.
Just read the following sentence and tell me what you think about it:
"oh yeah i get all my information about my religion directly from the pope in the vatican, because we decided EONS ago that he is the source for this kind of stuff".
Truth is not a democratic process and very hard to verify just by using data.