Search engines are basically 90% blogspam promotion machines at this point, and the blogspam churning engine is going to become completely autonomous. The tools we're relied on for nearly three decades now are going to become a big virtual tug of war between machine-learning-guided SEO systems and machine-learning-guided ad revenue systems.

Every single anonymous interaction is going to be suspect. The next dogwhistling fucking cryptonazi groyper you run into is probably not even going to be a human being. Machine learning is probably going to elect the next US president. Eventually the medium will become so polluted that we will have to go back to doing everything in person.

Thank you for reading my doompost

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    2 years ago

    Right now with a single server rack and a few scripts I could probably make every comments section of every news site and blog utterly useless until I get arrested for spam

    Using the same shady dedicated servers hosting services (mostly in eastern europe) as the darknet markets do - which would sadly mean using crypto to pay for them, mind you - and with good opsec, you most likely wouldn't even get arrested, too.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Could just drive to Belarus and rent a flat in cash. Hostile to the west so they aren't going to cooperate.