Comment by intended

You ditch anonymity, and you have this cascading chilling effect through the interwebs because you cannot moderate communities against the political head winds of your nations.

Worse, it won’t work. We are already able to create fake human accounts, and it’s not even a contest.

And with LLMs, I can do some truly nefarious shit. I could create articles about some discovery of an unknown tribe in the Amazon, populate some unmanned national Wikipedia version with news articles, and substantiate the credentials of a fake anthropologist, and use that identity to have a bot interact with people.

Heck I am bad at this, so someone is already doing something worse than what I can imagine.

Essentially, we can now cheaply create enough high quality supporting evidence for proof of existence. We can spoof even proof of life photos to the point that account take overs resolution tickets can’t be sure if the selfies are faked. <Holy shit, I just realized this. Will people have to physically go to Meta offices now to recover their accounts???>

Returning to moderation, communities online, and anonymity:

The reason moderation and misinformation has been the target of American Republican Senators is because the janitorial task of reducing the spread of conspiracy theories touched the conduits carrying political powers.

That threat to their narrative production and distribution capability has unleashed a global campaign to target moderation efforts and regulation.

Dumping anonymity requires us to basically jettison ye olde internet.