Discussion

A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next

ranger_danger: Apparently there is a "conspiracy" theory that age/ID verification is secretly a solution to bots.https://a.imagem.app/G3QHnV.png

everdrive: Bots really are ruining the internet, and are one of the driving factors in a lot of the identity verification and age gating. Both pressures are going to combine to destroy what we once had with the internet.

bonesss: I get less concerned about LLMs taking or jobs by the day, and more convinced they’ve already taken away our internet.There was a time of BBS and text based systems where only genuine humans could participate, and a lusty lady on mIRC was at worst some dude pretending. Now I’m half a page into HN posts and realizing I have yet again been duped into losing some life to some jagoffs lying bot and work is just as bad.The constant drip-drip of what’s-the-point makes the whole thing seem performative and hostile.