The AI will change the internet forever. We're on a trajectory of the complete digitisation of human society.

The algorithm has won. And for people who's entire reality is a computer screen, this is pretty much their apocalypse. Now nothing online can be trusted.

The only choice left is their greatest fear: going outside.

Shit, I welcome the internet apocalypse. The internet as an extension of mass media has become a massive threat to people's psyches.

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      2 years ago

      You socialize with the bots and the language model trains you.

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          2 years ago

          I was being glib there but thats sort of the way things are going and it is bleak. Theres already an industry for generating fake user content on the internet. Like its how you manufacture consent on the internet. Leaving good reviews for a product is fairly simple but having comment bots to shill for a war is more difficult because you must respond to other people. That usually required human labor to seem genuine but with AI its a breeze. So you'll never know if the person disagreeing with you online is real or not!

          The best case scenario is everyone understands this and gets off major social media platforms. WWorst case is we all stay on and think the bots are real people. In a way we are a "language model"; what people say to us in the past influences what we say in the future. If most things said to a real human comes from AI then you're gonna get an AI trained human.

          As for people who can only get socialization from online, you'll loose any sort of large anonymous forums. Only on niche sites where you can assume no botnet has interest in could you assume people are real.