most of the time you’ll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they’re gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.
for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they’ll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.
the only real humans you’ll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.
it’s gonna be a shithole.
I was actually thinking something similar, but less extreme. Alts, astroturfing and bots were already prevalent, it’s just gonna be a slight uptick to cover the loss in users. In my opinion, it won’t be a massive change, but a low double-digit percentage change
Yeah, even Reddit is not stupid enough to make it super obvious. They’ll just continue what they’ve been doing for years, making incremental changes that are detrimental but imperceptible to the users. It’s not until years later that people will look back and realize its a totally different website. Good riddance