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Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
AI-created posts are #1,342,629 on the list of problems with the content on this forum.
I would love to just see a forum where less than 60% of the content isn't about MDawg and kewlJ.
I said this on here three months ago -- that it was just months before most of what anyone is responding to on forums is AI-generated, so people pressing their AI switches will have others wasting energy and life-minutes typing responses to auto-responses the responders don't know are auto-responses.
While eliminating "handles" ameliorates some of this (if people are putting real-person signatures on AI-generated content, at least they are taking some responsibility), people are too addicted to their forum-life anonymous swashbuckling to actually put their real monikers to their content. Everyone plays pretend, whether it's white dudes who are part-time gamblers pretending to be Asian-omniscient or pretend full-time blackjack players who like to tell everyone "how Las Vegas works" or gambling experts who have conquered everything from penny slots to blackjack to sports gambling as next-generation Leonardo Da APs.
If people were tagged with their real names, their real life-circumstances would create a counter-narrative to their swashbuckling online omniscience.
But don't worry. It'll get worse. Next up comes video content on YouTube with AI-generated experts posting numerous videos of how to win at everything. And the AI-generated content will be indistinguishable from real humans. My estimate is that we're about two years out from that (not counting porn, which is ahead of the curve, as always).
Look at the bright side, however. Someday we'll get some social-psychological studies measuring physico-chemical differences between posting as yourself versus posting as Batman. We'll find out if posting under an anonymous handle depresses your hormones or boosts them. Are you sliding down the social hierarchical scale and behaving accordingly in real life because you are too fearful to be yourself online, or are you boosting your hormones because you get to play pretend the majority of the day (you know, like a mental institute patient)? Should be fascinating stuff.
The bottom line, however, is it really has become pointless to respond to anonymous handles. You are more and more likely to just be talking to yourself. My prediction is that you are going to find subset forums popping up where everyone uses their actual names (like, you know, the old phone book white pages). Niche forums and sites where people are real. I think as this happens, the behavioral problems that come with huge chunks of human communication being anonymous are going to be discussed more and more. We may discover that the explosion in autism has more to do with behavioral training than with purely physico-chemical profiles.