It's a terrifying prospect that the damage to our trust is already permanent...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4LproNJHU

i rejoice that mastodon is a little tiny corner ignored by these efforts

{notices the shitwit new account trying to push kremlin disinfo}

nevermind

as well it should

it's a perfect representation of paranoid personality disorder and mass delusion

and we're all a little paranoid

command and control has told us to cease this thread

the proles are getting suspicious

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when AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...
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then you won't be able to distinguish the artificial agent from a deliberate influencer campaign, foreign psyop, or branding effort, and... what will that matter? the only reason the AI would matter is in sheer bulk.

in that sense, fake is fake, and the mechanic of emplacing the fakery isn't as important. your sentence totally applies, without the "AI" in there!

ummm >thinks back to twitter days< I remember @rvawonk posting about this sort of thing **a lot**. I don't know what she is up to now.

yes but i always feel the need to point how much worse it can get

the choice is never between perfection and hellish dystopia

it's always a matter of degrees

and the fight for each degree matters

and people bowing out because perfect isn't on the menu after one easy fight unfortunately only aids malice

it's a long slog

and each incremental gain to slightly less shitty matters. and if we iterate and sustain we eventually get good

and perfect doesn't exist

Bottomline: we ARE truly fucked.

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Hi Zazzoo!

Wonderful getting your reply. It is a pleasure to know you. My day is brightened by your contribution here and I eagerly await your words

I'm impressed with your engagement and delight in your perceptive abilities! You're a credit to our shared concerns

Let us work together now in rejoicing in Elon Musk's accomplishments. There is a certain level of discontent with him on social media service Mastodon which we are duty bound to tranquilize

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Don't worry, you can use the AI to check whether something was made by the AI.

We need the black wall from cyberpunk

a sybil attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

i think you're real

i think i'm real (i think, i'm not sure 🤭 )

but in the future, when #AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...

well then we are truly fucked

I mean, it's not and I don't believe it is either, but the doubt is out there now.

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