I’d say we’re not there yet, but yeah, LLMs and image generators have accelerated it to the point, where I expect it to only take a few more years.
Gonna be interesting. There’s definitely going to be some enclaves, like invite-only places (in particular messengers), and potentially the fediverse won’t be worth targeting directly. But we do get lots of second-hand content here from places which are worth targeting, so yeah, will probably still notice the change here in one form or another.
Online communities will need to evolve natural protective features and either become porcupines that are visible but not worth the trouble of botting, or small hidden communities that spread via offline or secondary means, rather than attracting traffic from the web at large. I’m not sure what those communities will look like and it will probably be a pretty rapidly evolving landscape for at least the rest of my natural life.
OR we’ll get our act together and pass some laws or treaties or other broad compacts that make the public internet a usable shared resource. It could happen, but I admit I don’t see the internet’s current trajectory intersecting that possibility for the foreseeable future.
I’d say we’re not there yet, but yeah, LLMs and image generators have accelerated it to the point, where I expect it to only take a few more years.
Gonna be interesting. There’s definitely going to be some enclaves, like invite-only places (in particular messengers), and potentially the fediverse won’t be worth targeting directly. But we do get lots of second-hand content here from places which are worth targeting, so yeah, will probably still notice the change here in one form or another.
Online communities will need to evolve natural protective features and either become porcupines that are visible but not worth the trouble of botting, or small hidden communities that spread via offline or secondary means, rather than attracting traffic from the web at large. I’m not sure what those communities will look like and it will probably be a pretty rapidly evolving landscape for at least the rest of my natural life.
OR we’ll get our act together and pass some laws or treaties or other broad compacts that make the public internet a usable shared resource. It could happen, but I admit I don’t see the internet’s current trajectory intersecting that possibility for the foreseeable future.