I feel like there is a pending wave of AI bots incoming
Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big.
Well, as we all know, AI has gotten very smart to the point captcha's are useless, and it can engage in social forums disguised as a human.
With Reddit turning into propaganda central anda greedy CEO that has the motive to sell Reddit data to AI farms, I worry that the AI will be able to be prompted to target websites such as the websites in the fediverse.
Right now it sounds like paranoia, but I think we are closer to this reality than we may know.
Reddit has gotten nuked, so we built a new community, everyone is pleasantly surprised by the change of vibe around here, the over all friendlyness, and the nostalgia of old forums.
Could this be the calm before the storm?
How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?
Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?
Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?
What are your thoughts and insights on this new "internet 2.0"?
Yeah I got all the same concerns, I would trust fediverse more to try and fix this and Reddit zero, quite the opposite, I think Reddit might even take advantage of AI bots themselves to keep their dying platform alive and attack competitors like us.
How to fix I honestly do not know, there has to be some way to verify humans better than captcha which hopefully once it becomes relevant can be implemented. If not, we can probably forget about the internet entirely and return to monke.
Reddit has always embraced bots to pump their ad $ metrics. Twitter does the same thing and probably every company with an internet presence that uses ads