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I wonder, what will happen to mainstream platforms.
If you talk to “regular” people without our background, they often enough don’t believe that even astroturfing exists, especially not on “their” platform. So there will inevitably be a large amount of people who are oblivious to the fact, that they’re talking to machines and feel like this is the real world. That’s scary.
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I wonder, what will happen to mainstream platforms.
If you talk to “regular” people without our background, they often enough don’t believe that even astroturfing exists, especially not on “their” platform. So there will inevitably be a large amount of people who are oblivious to the fact, that they’re talking to machines and feel like this is the real world. That’s scary.
There will probably be mounting pressure to deanonymize the internet, like with what we’re seeing via age verification legislation in various places.