Comment by smurda
7 days ago
Bots have always been a problem on these platforms, but it has taken the deluge of AI generated accounts to force platforms to truly wrestle with the problem.
The upside is hopefully there are fewer bots on these platforms, which has many positive second-order effects. The downside is the method of human verification as ID cards will lead to more identity theft, fake IDs, and a new set of problems.
Humans will always have this problem, though, in the digital domain. There has to be some way of proving you’re a human digitally, before any trust can be built. It’s a paradox, for sure, but if not ID verification for proof of humanness, then what?