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Every time I see these pay-for-verification schemes I can't help but think of Dr. Seuss and the Star-Bellied Sneetches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohyMXB4FLo

I must not be the target audience for this because I can't see how paying nearly as much as Amazon Prime is worth it so I can get comment priority and a little star next to my FB account, which is friends-only anyway. If they threw something useful in, like a music or video streaming service with a decent catalog or airline miles or a discount at Target, then maybe.

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I think it's a response to the incoming AI revolution.

Just because someone writes in your name and your style online won't mean it's you when ChatGPT or the next version can clone your writing style in seconds.

Being verified online is going to be more important for businesses and people as the internet degrades into the quality level of recipe sites.

> Being verified online is going to be more important for businesses and people as the internet degrades into the quality level of recipe sites.

Now someone is thinking and making sense. But I don't think this current AI cycle is anything of a 'revolution'. It is more like a pure hype and mania driven reaction over a hallucinating AI generating sophistry.

There is no breakthrough in this other than 'train it on more data and watch it go off the rails' like what we have seen with Bing AI. This is just Tay 2.0.

No breakthrough for sure, but the usability at an adequate level for almost any text or code generation, doesn't mean we need full AGI to start breaking society.

If feels like people are expecting robocop, but owning an electric table saw, KitchenAid mixer and a electric golf cart - in the year 1800 - would still be revolutionary even if those are just stupid tools.

ChatGPT is a stupid tool, but what that tool, in unskilled human hands can do, will be more revolutionary than ChatGPT becoming some self-aware robot.

Sounds like Facebook’s problem, not mine.

Why would I want to be me online when the AI impersonators can provide me an off-ramp from internet addiction?

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