Paying real people is a thing, but it doesn't scale the way using AI does. Those who do wish to speak to a machine can still do so, but users should be protecte

Paying real people is a thing, but it doesn't scale the way using AI does. Those who do wish to speak to a machine can still do so, but users should be protected from bots randomly showing up in their social media and feeding them misinformation about science or commercial products without the user being aware of it. Again, depending on how the app is set up users wouldn't be aware, especially taking into account ever improving language models. Soon your "long enough" period won't be long enough anymore and a bot tricks you into thinking it's human. ML isn't scary to me at all, humans with bad intentions are. The same way I'm not scared of nuclear fission in itself but a warhead containing enriched uranium in the wrong hands is a serious danger. Saying that fighting the problem won't do anything unless it can be completely solved is an illogical statement, one could bring the same fallacious argument against any law. The issue with liars, misinformed folks and paid human actors remains, but a future where billionaire individuals or governments can flood us with thousands of seemingly different takes from apparently different "people" while secretly creating a consensus between the majority of them which is what you're feed when accessing internet media, that is massively worse and more dangerous than anything we have now. Imagine HN were this now and almost none of the people you're interacting with are real. It costs the attacker only server time but it brings them power over potentially all humans.