AI Rankings as Reputation Architecture

Digg’s new product ingests real‑time signals from X and applies clustering, sentiment, and ranking to surface the top stories and to publish top‑1,000 leaderboards for people, companies, and politicians in AI. That repackages reputation as a numeric output of third‑party algorithms rather than editorial judgment or measurable accomplishments. — Algorithmic reputation lists can reallocate attention, funding, and political leverage by turning ephemeral social signals into durable public standing.