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People will always seek out communities they can trust. The web and social media were once interesting but have become phony, conformist and cliché due to aggr
by tonymet 3y ago
People will always seek out communities they can trust. The web and social media were once interesting but have become phony, conformist and cliché due to aggressive cynicism, commercialization & censorship. Group chats (for now) are places where authentic conversation still exists. Group chats can still discuss creative and unique solutions with less risk to one’s reputation.
Soon AI will infiltrate the group chat and the conversation will move elsewhere. People will have a private conversation at any cost.
- lxgr 3y agoI really doubt that that will happen. As far as I can tell, e.g. Meta understands the value of WhatsApp, and how some people much prefer it over public social media; no way they'll just burn all of that by thowing a cludgy AI into every group chat that indiscriminately scans all messages. Tagging an AI in for resolving a quick question or dispute I can definitely see myself using (e.g. getting movie times, resolving a factual question etc.), but if it's anything more than that, I'm out.
- tonymet 3y agoThe AI doesn’t have to be user facing. It can be summarizing , censoring or transforming conversations without a visible agent. If I send you a message and AI transform it, how will either of us know?
- lxgr 3y ago> summarizing , censoring or transforming conversations without a visible agent. That would be pretty easy to prove, and if they do so without informing users about it, they could get fined for huge amounts since it would probably constitute a GDPR violation (i.e. saying that everything is end-to-end encrypted but really sending everything through an LLM hosted elsewhere). Why should they do any of that? What would they gain?
- tonymet 3y agofor the same reasons all the other channels have it