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I love all the people who said "Oh, no, generative AI will flood the online world with crap", as if generative natural intelligence hadn't already done so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

(periodic reminder: https://search.marginalia.nu )

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I think that while the signal/noise ratio on the internet is much lower when I joined as a wee person in the 1980s, we are simply not prepared for the poisoning of the commons that is coming.

The people who began circling wagons in the late 1990s creating invite-only “smart friends” stealth communities will turn out to have been bang on the money.

It’s probably not too late to start - but which platforms other than private email lists and RocketChat exist for the endless hunker-down?

We do pretty well with a free-tier Slack instance. They only keep a rolling 10k messages or so, but this seems to be enough for more than 100 friends and colleagues to keep comm lines open.

LinkedIn could be a model for making vouch-networks as we fight the evil bots(or more accurately the evildoers who abuse neutral bots)

90 days now, which actually makes free-tier Slack really bad.

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