the irony of this is that Perplexity is posting this one 🤣
@nixCraft I think the wide-open, globally-social parts of the internet are suffering a "tragedy of the commons". It's sort like one super-huge communal mailbox, getting stuffed to the brim with junkmail flyers, now that they're almost free to create with #AI .
To avoid all this effectively "junk-mail"-like content, people will have to stick to the smaller groups and organizations to which they belong in real-life, being more regional, national, city-level, community-level, special interest, etc. They will get more closed-in and private (not unlike medieval castles with draw-bridges), and will involve more shibboleths to prove humanity (say, passkeys, minisign signatures, etc), in order to exclude #AI.
@sbb @nixCraft a lot of car-related forums already have various "human checks" to avoid spammers/viral marketers which were a scourge even before AI - to join Team BHP (the Indian motoring forum) I had to leverage my own Asian ancestry and even answer a quiz about Tata Motors (which wasn't too difficult as they own Jaguar Land Rover here in UK)