[spicybright]

I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online.

Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast.

Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?

[haswell]

> Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?

I suspect the short answer is yes, and part of me wonders if this will actually be a good thing in the long run. It seems we’ve gotten pretty far from our social origins, arguably with some ill effects.

I’m more worried that this will usher in an era of draconian online verification out of apparent necessity.

[asdff]

Ephemeral platforms seem like they'd be less attractive targets to the bot shill farms than a place where you might be able to stick a top comment in a thread and get all the eyeballs on it forever.

[yieldcrv]

I’m fine letting this play out as is.

Some scifi imagines a world with a useless internet that is avoided in favor of local intranets or in person only

But also with AI running their own businesses, shout out to Delamain!

The human AI distinction wont be that important, but also in person favored.

[soupbowl]

I am worried that you are a bot.