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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @elvismercury 25 Mar \ parent \ on: Will AI end the social internet? AI

At some point, we'll never be sure if we are interacting with other humans on the internet.

Also, I wonder if this could be that thing they used to say: sufficiently good advertising becomes indistinguishable from really compelling information. So we won't care.

Or we will have nuanced views, just as we do with our real-life friends: we like Wayne even though we know in certain ways he's kind of an asshole. Perhaps certain foibles of artificiality will be annoyances we deal with because on net it's worth it.

218 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 25 Mar

Perhaps certain foibles of artificiality will be annoyances we deal with because on net it's worth it.

Oh I agree it'll be worth it on net. But do we measure people as an aggregate? Would we displace Wayne with an artificial Wayne that's pleasant and not sense something lacking? Is Wayne more than his aggregate? idk. I guess I hope so.

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury 25 Mar

I think another clue to how this will evolve is that I've replaced a chunk of my time talking to flesh and blood people I know with talking to you and other SN peeps, many of whom I feel significant friendly feelings toward. In a way, ya'll are artificial beings, and yet I invest a stunning amount of time in these "relationships" and this "community."

I include the scare quotes because that's how it would be perceived to a lot of other people; and yet I don't even think about it at all. It's just another dimension to sociality that I incorporate with the rest, another point in the high-dimensional space of relating to other beings, where "beings" will likely turn into its own high-dimensional space I navigate more or less fluidly.

54 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 25 Mar

I think you're right. We will layer in artificial friends, like we do internet friends now, as they will fill a niche in our social needs-space.

The prediction I'm kind of making is this though: if artificial internet people out number real internet people and we can't tell the difference between artificial and real internet people, AI will destroy our ability to know we are making internet friends with real people. And I'm curious how we'll behave when that happens.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 25 Mar

Like we'll have a general agnosticism about whether they're human or AI? Or at least, a fuzzy ambiguity about it?

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 25 Mar

Yes, at first.

Then, if I'm making any sense at all anymore, should AI outnumber humans online and its publicly known, the rational thing to do is assume you're always talking to an AI.