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Social media, AI, anonmyous posts. Thoughts.

RivieraKid · 2017-05-27T13:13:10

[Edit, typo in topic i know :(] Hi all, I have come to the conclusion that with the current rules/systems governing the internet at some point it will become impossibe to determine if an anonymous user is a human user or an automated (AI) user. I think it is already impossible to determine for simple comments on social media. I don't know when but eventually AI will be good enough to hold a basic conversation compared to the average social media user - lets face it, its not uncommon to encounter total idiocy and to discount that as a dumbass user. There are reports of governments using social media to sway public opinion. My wife just texted me that she noticed that NASA get lots of trolls but ESA get very little. Just another piece of circumstancial evidence to throw onto the already massive pile. The only solution I see to this problem is to prevent (and make illegal in some cases) public comments without associating with a social security number (or some other form of real world identification). This would also cut down on police work which is currently using up valuable time that could be spent investigating real world crimes. As it stands we have a comparable situation to standing in trafalgar square with a loud speaker but nobody can see you - you have some cloaking technology. If you want to use the internet then social media noise is completely unavoidable, in the same way it is unavoidable for school children who are being bullied on social media. "Dont like it - Dont use it" is not acceptable and it is obviously not acceptable to say "well, dont go to trafalgar square if you dont like the invisible people with loud speakers". Yet there are people who claim anonymous public posting is some sort of right - it is not - it is just how it has been until now. To my knowledge there has never been a public agreement/constitution that declares the right to spout your opinions publicly while the listener is prevented from obtaining your identity. There have been some court cases and ruling but as is clear the government is benefiting from anonymity. In any case it should be clear to the listener if the user has chosen to remain anonymous or not. I think if a private forum like GameDev wishes to allow anomymous posting that is fine but I think most places would adopt the rule "anomymous posting is forbidden" pretty quickly as the most popular sites would be the ones where you know you are talking to humans. The places it would be illegal are news outlets, government press releases, official feeds. It would be clear to the users which parts of the internet are open to anonymous users and which are not. I realise it would take a lot of technical changes to the internet and global agreement but tbh, its going to happen as soon as people start complaining when they realise they have been chatting with bots on youtube comments. There will always be outlets for anonymous posting (in the case of safety) but in general, just like I dont listen to the views of people if I dont know who they are IRL I will stop visiting sites if I can't confirm that I am actually interacting with a real person.

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Started by RivieraKid May 25, 2017 10:41 AM

9 comments, last by Alberth 7 years, 1 month ago

Alberth

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May 27, 2017 01:13 PM

I think a much bigger danger is that people stop reading / discussing alternatives. Communities are build by listening to everybody, and weigh all opinions. Internet makes it easy to subscribe only to news that fits in your ideas, which might eventually break down communities, since everybody only hears his/her version of the truth, and believes that is universal.

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