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Disclaimer: It’s different screenshots cut and stitched together into one, not every comment is like that, but its a majority of them. These are all in the top 30 of the top-level replies.
I was just searching though subs to see their opinions in immigration… holy shit, this is major sub that often has posts going to the front page. This is yet another reminder why reddit sucks.
Sadly I think in the next 5 years, as LLMs get cheaper and more accessible, there will be nowhere left like this. Nowhere that you can have an anonymous old school conversation using a text interface with the expectation that you are talking to real people.
Maybe there will be some magic anti-AI tech, but I can’t think of a way you could implement that without trashing anonymity.
I think small private groups of vetted members are likely to become even more popular if that’s the case. It would be a shame for search and discoverability, but if an open connection to the web leads inexorably to bots you really can’t tell from people…
Kind of overstating it but it would be like an internet dark age in a way. Most conversations encrypted, unarchived, known only to a few. Like you were saying, conversations like this, on the open web, just wouldn’t happen anymore if the internet is just for business, shopping, etc
Bring back webrings!
It’s called an EMP device.