> you'll have no idea if a brilliant essay or entire magazine is made by a bot. That doesn't sound like a problem to me. If the ideas being expressed offer val

> you'll have no idea if a brilliant essay or entire magazine is made by a bot. That doesn't sound like a problem to me. If the ideas being expressed offer value to the readers, who/what created them isn't particularly relevant. > you'll have no idea if the politician/professor/activist on the video is real. Tying real-world identity to the expression of ideas on the Internet has already created the problems you describe toward the end of your comment. We already see self-censorship, external censorship, and people just regurgitating a "safe" subset of ideas that they may not even actually believe. Many of the most honest and insightful comments I've seen here were from throw-away accounts, or "Anonymous Coward" on Slashdot, or otherwise weren't immediately tied to an identifiable person. The most artificial, blandest, and lowest-quality online content I've seen has consistently been from politicians who are merely repeating their party's vetted talking points, or the mass media, or from other identifiable people.