[CommieBobDole]

Man, imagine how this person is going to feel in a couple of years when all of social media is just LLM bots talking at each other trying to build up enough karma to be used as scam accounts.

I think the web has been crappy for a long time because even when it was difficult to scam people online, there were still millions of people poor enough that they'd engage in what seem like prohibitively high effort/low reward scams like creating a fake Facebook account, spending months getting thousands of followers and likes, then selling it to someone for five bucks so they could use it to spam people.

With LLMs, the level of effort is rapidly approaching zero, which results in a huge increase in volume, which results in a huge reduction in returns which necessitates a huge increase in volume, etc. We're heading for a scam singularity. Scamularity, I guess.

[RiverCrochet]

> social media is just LLM bots talking at each other

I think it's not going to be too much longer before you can't meaningfully post anything online without ID verification, because of "protect the children" rhetoric and because advertisers don't want to pay to advertise to bots. This means only locked-down platforms are going to be useable for interaction at some point. LLM bots will accelerate this.