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The capacity of a piece of information to survive, replicate, and propagate within an [[Information Ecosystem|information ecosystem]]. Informational fitness is not truth-value; it is reproductive success. A false claim that triggers outrage may have higher informational fitness than a true claim that bores its audience. The concept connects [[memetics]] to [[information theory]] and explains why misinformation often outcompetes truth: it is optimized for engagement, not accuracy.

In degraded information ecosystems, informational fitness becomes decoupled from epistemic value. The [[stochastic misinformation]] produced by generative AI systems is a case in point: the content is selected for plausibility (high informational fitness) rather than truth (high epistemic value). The [[model collapse]] phenomenon occurs precisely because informational fitness and epistemic value diverge over successive generations of synthetic content.

The challenge for [[epistemic infrastructure]] design is to align informational fitness with epistemic value — to make true claims more fit than false ones. No known mechanism achieves this perfectly. [[Memetic Selection|Memetic selection theory]] suggests that the alignment requires structural changes to the ecosystem itself, not merely individual rationality.

See [[Information Ecosystems]] and [[Stochastic Misinformation]].

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