Source: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/2032600868005310638#m

Yeah, so basically the current prevailing schizo internet theory is that AI nerds have destroyed the >internet and created infinite spam.

The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human. The advertisement goons no longer want to pay as much to social media networks.

Social media networks, in full blown panic of losing potential revenue, decided to lobby governments saying “we gotta protect the kids! ID everyone to protect the kids from pedophiles!”.

The social media networks know this doesn’t really protect kids. But, it does two things (and a third accidentally).

  1. They now can identify who is human and who is AI slop machine, or enough to appease the advertisement goons

  2. Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something, so with ID verification they can say with confidence they’re not advertising to children because it’s been ID verification. Basically, they can weed out the children and focus on advertising to adults

  3. The feds can now tell who is human and who is AI slop. This inadvertently helps them with tracking people and serving fresh daily dumps of propaganda, or whatever they want to do.

It’s a win-win-win for advertisers, social media networks, the government, and any business which does data collections.

It fucks over everyone else.

Chat, I’m not going to lie to you. This is an extremely good conspiracy schizo theory and I unironically believe it.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      Actually, conspiracies are definitely real. Theories being randomly generated by everyone, especially to poison the well, has caused the term to become derogatory in nature, and I say this as a huge fan of Knowledge Fight, which objectively looks at Info Wars and similar people. Because conspiracy theories are often insane, literal conspiracies can occur and have some ability to hide in plain sight.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        Theories being randomly generated by everyone

        Also that:

        A hypothesis is a specific, testable prediction or explanation for a phenomenon, while a theory is a well-established framework that explains a broad range of observations and is supported by extensive evidence. Theories are generally more comprehensive and have undergone more rigorous testing than hypotheses.

        • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
          3·
          14 hours ago

          That is the formal definition in the sciences, yes. But colloquially, “theory” refers to a belief that has not been tested but for which it can be argued some evidence exists. (Not good evidence mind you, just “evidence.”)

          • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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            10 hours ago

            I know, but it’s fun to point it out.
            Also, one of the reasons why prefer not calling the stuff I make, “theories”, even though they are made to partially fit existing information.