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Ads already killed the web. There is a narrow window to use LLMs to resurrect it while behavioural modes are liquid and we can finally aggregate all of the real world events and tie online identities and reputation to participation in physical communities, thereby allowing people to enforce moral norms within distributed and decentralised networks, to sanitise digital public spaces without centralised control systems.
AI-slop is an opportunity to convince people to finally defect from the dominant ad funded paradigm, to disconnect to reconnect.
Maybe we can even kill the ad model entirely by creating a service that is monetised in a manner that aligns with user-purposes and make the use of apps that serve ads into a lower-class or socially disapproved behaviour, like smoking or pissing in the public square. Ads and the engagement model has to be associated with dirt, poor digital hygiene. With a sufficiently powerful alternative you could probably propagate that idea to nurture a vibe shift, starting with women and parents, who would then enforce it on the rest.
We're probably too late to save Gen-Z from the worst effects of the ad funded internet and the bunk ideology of 'revealed preferences', but maybe we can prepare the road for Gen-Alpha.
i dont have enough faith in the majority of humanity for this to be feasible, but it's an admirable vision for sure
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I don't think you need that kind of faith, I think you just have to have faith that a healthier more coordinated minority will dominate society. If you have poor digital hygiene you should bare the consequences yourself, and not able to offload the negative side effects on the rest of us. If that means kicking over our nation state democratic system in favour of a more devolved governance system built on hierarchy then so be it, we need to topple the bankrupt gerantocracy somehow.
Bottom line: majoritarianism and healthy digital spaces are incompatible.
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