https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
As AI takes over the public internet (the trees) the people will retreat to safe underground spaces where they know only authentic humans live.
As AI takes over the public internet (the trees) the people will retreat to safe underground spaces where they know only authentic humans live.
I believe the mainstream internet is already completely overrun by malicious actors, whether bots or not, and the majority of the population doesn't seem to care or have the ability to notice. I don't see the bulk of the population doing anything to retreat from it. A subset of the population, that includes myself, sure, but "the people", I doubt it.
Meanwhile, the goal of most of these private groups isn't to stick it to the man, or make sure all data is eternally private, but just to talk to each other in a non-public setting. It's OK to use a tool for that you haven't entirely built from scratch.
Most humans, your "the people" (really? in quotes? did you want to write sheeple?), care more about getting on with their life than absolutist stances. They notice just fine, and they adjust as much as they feel the need to adjust.
I mean, people often have conversations in coffee shops, such as Starbucks. Starbucks is a third-party private business that only exists if it somehow can make money off of you. I am pretty sure it also does "nebulous stuff" with the data it gets off me - it has my credit card after all, and I am sure it runs all the analytics it can. It will remove me from the stores if they don't like me (with the exception of few law-protected cases).
And yet, no one says that the physical world is "already completely overrun by malicious actors", and that somehow "majority of population" does not have the ability to notice that most of the establishments we interact with daily want to make money off me.
There also aren't the same network effects. No one feels obligated to visit Starbucks even though they dislike it due to all their friends/family only conversing at Starbucks.
That's exactly the business model of shopping malls. They create a fun place to hang out at that just happens to have hundreds of shops.
> There also aren't the same network effects. No one feels obligated to visit Starbucks even though they dislike it due to all their friends/family only conversing at Starbucks.
Most sizeable events have low ticket price but they search your bag for potential food or drinks so that they can sell you their own overpriced ones. You can bring a Kalashnikov but a bottle of water is a big no-no
In the US teenagers teenagers hang out at malls, but that's only because cities and communities don't give a shit about building inclusive places for all people to spend time without needing to spend money.
Indeed. If malls were fun, why are they all being abandoned and closed down due to a lack of foot traffic?
the problem isn't the amount of revenue fecebutt or slack extracts (mostly; parks are still better than starbucks if some of your friends are poor or struggling to eat healthy). it's the revenue model. apple's is okay. verizon's is great. comcast's is acceptable. level3's is fantastic. but twitter's is a tornado of diarrhea, and slack's is being literal ransomware
We've been overrun by capitalism for so long and so many of our interactions that we can't see it anymore.
The local pub may be doing this, however.