Smart Feeders are scary. Whenever you try to independently research the topic, Google could change your opinion by giving you the resources that are likely to push you in one direction (assuming it can understand the resources, and knows your preferences about them). So you would simultaneously get manipulated and strengthen your belief that the conclusions are your own—because you made the conclusions youself, based on information that was carefully filtered for you.
I wonder if too many bots on internet would lead to people being skeptical about humanity of those they haven’t met in person. Kinda like the old “on internet, men are men, women are also men, and children are FBI agents”, except now it would be “bots are bots, and humans are also bots”. Will people stop communicating online with strangers, because they would expect most of them to be bots, so we will again only talk to our personal friends? Or will we simply accept that 90% of our online friends are probably bots, but there is nothing we can do about that, and turning off the whole internet would just be too boring? Will many websites start having offline meetups to confirm the humanity of their users?
Smart Feeders are scary. Whenever you try to independently research the topic, Google could change your opinion by giving you the resources that are likely to push you in one direction (assuming it can understand the resources, and knows your preferences about them). So you would simultaneously get manipulated and strengthen your belief that the conclusions are your own—because you made the conclusions youself, based on information that was carefully filtered for you.
I wonder if too many bots on internet would lead to people being skeptical about humanity of those they haven’t met in person. Kinda like the old “on internet, men are men, women are also men, and children are FBI agents”, except now it would be “bots are bots, and humans are also bots”. Will people stop communicating online with strangers, because they would expect most of them to be bots, so we will again only talk to our personal friends? Or will we simply accept that 90% of our online friends are probably bots, but there is nothing we can do about that, and turning off the whole internet would just be too boring? Will many websites start having offline meetups to confirm the humanity of their users?