Social Media broke Society. Then Elon broke Social Media. Now, There’s AI.

Roughly, here's what I think happened. Social media broke society. There's this number that's tracked. It's like how many close friends does the average adult have and it's like 13 in 1990 and it declines every decade until like 2020. It's like one to three or something ridiculous like that. I think what happened is we replaced social media. media interactions in real life with social interactions online and these parasocial interactions with people online . We never actually meet or interact with like watching YouTube videos that got even worse during lockdown than after lockdown. Elon just broke social media and the elections came and broke social media even more. All I know is that Twitter used to be tolerable and now it's all bots and garbage and now AI is going to come along and make that even worse. And not enough people migrated to other platforms like blue sky. But anyway, my theory is that GPT and llama are just so cheap. They're getting cheaper. Anything that's based on text content on the web will just become unreliable completely unreliable. Any website where you scroll through a feed of text posts is just going to be garbage. Like you remember in the 2000s , you'd post a blog, you'd write a post and if you turned on comments, the bots would come in and just flood your whole comment section with spam from bots just copy pasted every website that can find a comment form on. And I think we're about to experience that with literally any platform that gets traction on the internet and relies on text content. It's going to be more bots than human. So the only way I think you'll know it's a real person behind a post or a piece of content is if you change the format, make it audio or video. So everything that's accessible using AI for content creation, simple images, text. It's just going to become such a garbage. It won't be worth your time even looking at . And so platforms that rely on text and image content, you 're not going to explicitly know this, but you'll just open your feed and they'll just be garbage. You garbage, you garbage, you garbage, you garbage, you know, hate it. And you'll leave. So I think about things like Twitter, Reddit. I don't know what you get from there. Like Reddit kind of works because you have upvote downvote, you have some kind of human curation happening through that system, but like comments, comments become 80% written by bots. Then that whole thing is going to fall apart. Twitter, even blue sky, Mastodon, like these feeds of text comments. I don't know where it goes. It probably just stops working once AI becomes ubiquitous.