Unless walled gardens bring in mechanisms that bring a real cost to the table for creating content, such as limitations on posts and account creation, they would be in the same boat.
In either system users can go to a strict whitelisting approach but that would com at a cost of discoverability and serendipity. This would strengthen the position of anointed 'influencers' and curators, and diminish the value of algorithmic feeds so eating into the revenue model of those that rely on this.
Since those forces are counteracting it is hard to make predictions, but I will anyway but take it with a strong dose of uncertainty.
My dystopian take is the ubiquitous deployment of 'fake' actors will further undermine the general inter-human levels of trust. Evolutionary less fragile altruistic strategies rely on unfakable or at least costly signals to stand up to the 'free-rider' intrusion. Sadly undermining trust will accelerate the further descend into identity tribalism we are already witnessing today, a segregation into near-immutable trait based groups where cross-clan transgressions are punished with extreme measures. As a caricature think of the television portrayal of tribal gang cultures in maximum security prisons.
My utopian take is that the onslaught of fake noise will restore the reliance on offline contacts and connections. Due to physical proximity these offline groups have to share more of the negative externalities caused by their actions which could lead to more altruistic consideration in consumption and production descisioning. Direct verifyable contribution and impact might trump systemic distrust and lead us out of the current innate identity tribal descend.
This problem is coming from the way providers choose to deliver content, the way they design their data products and the metrics they optimise for. NLP is simply the group of algorithms that power this process, not the underlying cause.
Probably more likely hitting that annoying point that you cannot be quite sure is article machine-generated lorem ipsum which sounds convincing but does not have any real information behind it. something like http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scien... but with scale.
In either system users can go to a strict whitelisting approach but that would com at a cost of discoverability and serendipity. This would strengthen the position of anointed 'influencers' and curators, and diminish the value of algorithmic feeds so eating into the revenue model of those that rely on this.
Since those forces are counteracting it is hard to make predictions, but I will anyway but take it with a strong dose of uncertainty.
My dystopian take is the ubiquitous deployment of 'fake' actors will further undermine the general inter-human levels of trust. Evolutionary less fragile altruistic strategies rely on unfakable or at least costly signals to stand up to the 'free-rider' intrusion. Sadly undermining trust will accelerate the further descend into identity tribalism we are already witnessing today, a segregation into near-immutable trait based groups where cross-clan transgressions are punished with extreme measures. As a caricature think of the television portrayal of tribal gang cultures in maximum security prisons.
My utopian take is that the onslaught of fake noise will restore the reliance on offline contacts and connections. Due to physical proximity these offline groups have to share more of the negative externalities caused by their actions which could lead to more altruistic consideration in consumption and production descisioning. Direct verifyable contribution and impact might trump systemic distrust and lead us out of the current innate identity tribal descend.