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This Friday at 3pm ET, I’m hosting an AMA with @eugene in this channel! 

He’s an incisive student of tech, authoring classics like Status as a Service and Seeing like an Algorithm.

Ask him about social networks, consumer product, and insights from his years as a product exec at Oculus, Hulu, and Flipboard!

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Q: In a world where social graph ownership is transitioning to web3 and AI generates infinite content, how do you envision social networks preserving authenticity and ensuring the quality of content? 
How does this value prop compare to the value prop of web2 social networks?

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There have been some attempts to watermark or distinguish AI bot content from human content. I'm not sure if that ever scales. In general, outside of China and the CCP, Western social hasn't shown a desire to moderate beyond some minimum level, perhaps because of the cost.

Walter Benjamin wrote "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and we're due for someone to update that in this age where mechanical reproduction has reached a new level through generative AI.

For now it's not as pressing because AI content still stands out to me as usually inferior to the best human-generated content. But if it does achieve parity or exceeds human ingenuity, will audiences care? I don't know. I'm reminded of those strange YouTube videos farming kids' attention.