we're having conversations with bots.
I have asked someone to quit replying to me with AI generated content and apologize, and when they didn't I stopped following them. It has been happening for some time, and it a lot harder to detect when folks edit the AI text. @blanchy recently posted about the Hive community being ~500 actual people, most of whom were sock puppeting dozens of accounts. I know of some users that had >10k accounts years ago, and today may approach 100k.
Absent a way to prevent automating interactions, society is not going to be comprised of people, and will no longer be society at all, since society is people, but an automated simulacrum of society, like an android is of a human being. What's the use of that? Making money? Money's value is just as illusory as automated social interactions.
Before he sold out Ned proposed reforming governance of Steem by dumping the plutocracy for 1a1v, and using oracles to exclude bots and sock puppets. He never detailed how oracles would work, so I have no idea how such would function.
I do not dislike automation. It's actually great, a tool that really is useful for jobs it is appropriate to, like spot welding hinges on car hoods in a factory, or spray painting cars after they're built. Painting is a very medically hazardous job, and automating it not only increases productivity but prevents terrible suffering from ghastly illness. But there are things automation is inappropriate for, like talking to our neighbors, having picnics, or conceiving our children. Those are things that only should be done by actual people.
A year or so ago I got accused of being AI myself with some regularity, because of how I express myself in writing, which some folks seem to think AI resembles. That quit happening for some reason. Maybe it was bots making the accusations and they gave up? I dunno.
The picture I use as an avatar is from New Guinea, around the turn of the 20th Century I think. I like the look in his eye, and he sorta resembles me in that sense.
I just read his post. Well written and very humoring. 500 people... I wonder how many of those accounts the oligarchy vote down are actually themselves too? Job security?
That's very few people. I've had public speeches before with about that amount. It's not that many. It's basically a crowded church.
Still a plutocracy or oligarchy i think. What Is 1a1v?
Idk what oracles are but if they get rid of sock puppet reaping rewards for ba reasons I'm down with it.
Now wait a minute, hold on there. Lol I know a few npc neighbors I could use automated conversation with. Save me the time and hassle to deal with them again if we cross paths.
But I get your point. Yeah it's not entirely ok and it's unfair. I would hate to be in a long conversation and it wasn't even a human being. I've had that happen many times in telegram, FB and Twitter back in the day. Automated picnics? Weird to even see..no clue how that would look like. Probably will just make anyone else feel socially awkward even if they aren't even in the picture.
Cheers mate. Time for sleep.
That was the purpose, and the oligarchy fought against it uncompromisingly. That's why Ned gave up, sold out, and gave birth to Hive.
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