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I'm curious to see the tipping point where content on the internet will no longer be relevant for users: no matter how hard you'll be searching, you'll only find crap generated content designed to lure a bot into thinking it's great content for humans.

The big question is where to go next; where should we (the humans) go to talk and search for things that aren't a den of bots that will flood the entire content until they disgust everyone, as is the case with today's big search engines?

A large part of the population can move on private platforms that use their personal data to generate profit. But I think I'm not the only one who doesn't like this idea.

So the next question becomes "where should we (the humans who want our right to privacy respected) go to talk and search for things, that isn't a den of bots"?

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> So the next question becomes "where should we (the humans who want our right to privacy respected) go to talk and search for things, that isn't a den of bots"?

There will be no place. Even private platforms will (do) have all speech reviewed automatically and changed or deleted to conform with the platform's editorial policies, which will be informed by government and billionaire threats. Our only place to speak freely will be with our family and friends in person, and they will be encouraged to inform on you.

We will not be able to learn about the world, and if we know something about the world, we will be considered a danger and forced into silence or arrested. All mainstream media outlets and communications platforms support this. Many of your neighbors support this.

In a decade or two, you won't be able to tell AI sludge apart from real people writing, and it won't be because the AI sludge got better.

> Our only place to speak freely will be with our family and friends in person, and they will be encouraged to inform on you.

We'll be carrying listening devices on us and meeting within earshot of smart assistants, smart TVs, ring cameras, game consoles, cars, and anything else they decide to shove microphones into. Our devices are so convenient that they will inform on us so that we won't even have to inform on each other.

> Even private platforms will (do) have all speech reviewed automatically and changed or deleted to conform with the platform's editorial policies, which will be informed by government and billionaire threats.

I tend to agree in the extreme...but do not overlook the power of spectacle. Trump is a half decent example of the power one can generate and harness to some degree.

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