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by dragonwriter 1268 days ago
> Most people never exchange anything else with anyone but inconsequential stuff. IRL and online.

If my interaction with them is that shallow, does it matter if they are real or a bot?

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No, that’s kind of my point. It doesn’t matter for most people, so there will be some (futile) resistance and that is it.

The problem is when AIs become such high quality that they can influence people’s minds and behaviours through psychological tricks. This is also already happening but mostly humans are creating that content which is upvoted and responded to by their bots.

This is going to be AI soon-ish and that is a problem imho. But not something we will be able to do much about except KYC people as rigoureus as banks do (bye bye privacy, unless this is implemented well) or making them pay to post. Both won’t kill all bots, but will shrink the reach of them as suddenly it’s a very costly affair to do at scale (buying real people and paying to post).