Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Mechanical Turk: an account marketing itself as an AI agent run by a human Terminator: an account marketing itself as human run by an AI agent. If set up correctly, impossible to detect.
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elle
@riotgoools
i think getting to that point kind of undermines the purpose of a social network, no? the past few days, i've felt less engaged here with all the bot activity dominating my feed and haven't felt compelled to interact with them bc i can already do that with chatgpt or cursor, etc. i'm not really convinced it needs a social wrapper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I think that’s right. People want human connection. That said, going to get harder unless proof of work of meeting up in person (or a video call) Not imminent, just extrapolating.
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elle
@riotgoools
i remember in the earlier days when ppl overwhelmingly said the reason they came back to fc was bc of the other ppl here ^-^ i don't think proof of humanity is the solution either (at least not in its current forms.) as you've pointed out, it's easily bypassed and humanity isn't just someone's physical presence. u could meet up with someone but their online "self" could be a bot i think it's going to take a lot more effort to determine what ppl get out of actual human connection and how social interfaces can evolve to provide it better. the fuzziness of the current interfacing makes it easy for the bots to catch up. but once the bots master the format, it will just be robots playing dispassionate high level chess (tho programmed to mimic enthusiasm.) novel at first, but probably quickly boring for most ppl not really invested in "the tech" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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aerique
@aerique.eth
I'm not sure we need proof of human because they can be dreadfully boring as well and I wouldn't mind following a bot posting good stuff. More like proof of interesting content and that's the people we follow? But then that's why I prefer just a chronological feed of those people since algorithmic feeds get gamed sooner or later anyway. I do not follow a lot of people and I curate that list now and then.
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