<story><title>AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off</title><url>https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-the-great-logging-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;What happens when most &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; you interact with on the internet are fake? I think people start logging off.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily think that&amp;#x27;s the case. Remember the old &amp;quot;nobody on the internet knows you&amp;#x27;re a dog&amp;quot; cartoon? Well, I think that for a lot of things, nobody cares if they&amp;#x27;re talking to a dog.&lt;p&gt;People only care about people on the internet being fake in certain contexts. They&amp;#x27;ll very much care if all of their dating app matches are robots, because the end goal of a dating app is actually meeting someone in the flesh.&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t think that people on Nextdoor and Facebook groups particularly care - or would even notice - if they&amp;#x27;re talking to robots. As far as I can tell from my limited exposure, most people like getting caremad in comments. Even in local groups, it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like there&amp;#x27;s much connection being made between neighbors; an AI complaining about traffic or agreeing&amp;#x2F;disagreeing with someone&amp;#x27;s political opinion would scratch the same itch as someone two towns over doing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>Some of the most popular platforms online are largely anonymous (Reddit and Twitter). Most of the time, you don’t even notice the username of the person responding to you. They might as well be bots, but people don’t care.&lt;p&gt;Heck, Reddit threads are often so predictable that they might as well be written by bots.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, most people just want to talk and feel that someone, something is listening to them. People rejecting your idea need to recalibrate their understanding of the depth and breadth of human loneliness.&lt;p&gt;The original New Yorker cartoonist forgot that people talk to their dogs too.</text></comment>
<story><title>AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off</title><url>https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-the-great-logging-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;What happens when most &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; you interact with on the internet are fake? I think people start logging off.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily think that&amp;#x27;s the case. Remember the old &amp;quot;nobody on the internet knows you&amp;#x27;re a dog&amp;quot; cartoon? Well, I think that for a lot of things, nobody cares if they&amp;#x27;re talking to a dog.&lt;p&gt;People only care about people on the internet being fake in certain contexts. They&amp;#x27;ll very much care if all of their dating app matches are robots, because the end goal of a dating app is actually meeting someone in the flesh.&lt;p&gt;But I don&amp;#x27;t think that people on Nextdoor and Facebook groups particularly care - or would even notice - if they&amp;#x27;re talking to robots. As far as I can tell from my limited exposure, most people like getting caremad in comments. Even in local groups, it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like there&amp;#x27;s much connection being made between neighbors; an AI complaining about traffic or agreeing&amp;#x2F;disagreeing with someone&amp;#x27;s political opinion would scratch the same itch as someone two towns over doing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peteradio</author><text>Does it matter if the person on the other side of the glory hole is a dude?  Maybe?  Maybe you didn&amp;#x27;t think that was a possibility? Maybe it being widely known that you are yelling at clouds makes it less satisfying of a scratch?</text></comment>