As ML makes it increasingly trivial to generate profile pictures, bios, and long posting histories from scratch, the importance of identity verification on social media will become increasingly critical
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Platforms that allow one-click anonymous account creation with no checks are already full of astroturfed propaganda networks, but those still require significant human labor. This will soon be completely automatable
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Zero skin in the game in online identity is in my view a cause for a lot of bad behaviour.
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My fear is those who can *pay* for a sort of online life inside a curated garden will, increasingly, do so. Much like AOL in the early Internet, or walled suburbs all over the US, those on the inside will get "real" content, while Grandma/Grandma will eat the junkfood of Fox, etc
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The future of social networks is tracked referrals. This would make it easier to delete fake parts of the pyramid. Like they do at https://lobste.rs/
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it’s already easily mechanized without GPT-3, to say nothing about rampant legitimate usage via non-credentialed accounts. ultimately we need a decentralized credentials attestation (“Web of Trust”), but unlikely given the monopoly of social identity providers
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I'm more afraid of verified people running propoganda networks.
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