Jack Dorsey says we won't know what is real anymore in the next 5-10 years

Pretty sure Jack lost the ability to distinguish reality from his own hype _way_ more than 5-10 years ago

The original Twitter verification process was a great solution to this back in the day !

It's a shame its brand was destroyed to make a quick buck. Most blue checks I see nowadays are spam and trolls

Not just what, but who.

I expect to see a rise in use of small scale networks/groups, ideally self hosted in some way, where participants are all known to each other in real life. For years now I've been seeing people migrate to WhatsApp groups largely for this reason (I know each of you, this conversation is not public, and we're not going to have some weird bot or 'curator' turn up to shill, steal, or spray slop around).

Really curious to know about any co-housing/living communities or the like that have found a useful solution along the lines of a calendar/notification/chat/messaging/file sharing platform that isn't some mashup of big tech offerings.

Who's offering real life communities a 'social platform in a box'?

Chump numbers. If you are committed with your regular DMT usage you can get there within weeks.

I already don't know what's real anymore when reading historical snippets accompanied by pictures. Especially Facebook content, it's worse than the bottom of the barrel paper printed tabloids of the 90s, with the hen that gave birth to live chicks and all.

Eventually I'll have no option but to re-subscribe to paid content, while there's a trace of quality and objectiveness left.

The next planned step from caring governments and big tech: mandatory online identification.

Sow disinformation to drive crowds, zero in and silence dissidents. 1984 is served.

I just wish that Zuck, Thiel, Sergei, Elon, Jack and all the richest-beyond-any-practical-sense are remembered in history as the ones that did most of the work for this to happen.

Hell, I am no Stallman fan, but I would take his view over the crowd any day.

Jack would know. He helped knock away the few remaining safeguards we had left.

Whereas Square used AI to prevent fraud, Twitter used AI to create an algorithmic hate machine. Any remaining authentic sigmal is overwhelmed by the noise of bots, trolls, agitprop, memes, and socketpuppets.

I'm not sure that many of the people out there in the world can or ever could.

This is already the case for many people who fall for half-truth clickbait on a daily basis.

I agree it will get worse, but to suggest that this is a future problem is wrong.

Is that the real Jack Dorsey?

10 years?

This feels more like a next 12 months problem to me at current pace

AI needs to be put back in the box and buried.

Time to re-read "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".

I feel it might be more unsettling than when I read it ~5 years ago.

I already think over the top positive comments are AI.

We already live in alternate realities depending on what media we consume. Which is determined by our political group. Which is largely determined by location or socio-economic status, etc.

I mean literally having wildly varying beliefs about what is true or not. Especially political beliefs, each group believes that the other groups or their leaders are incompetent and corrupt. This goes for splits inside of a country but also in regards to other countries.

Technology is an amplifier. But it shouldn't be blamed for problems that humans create due to the nature of humanity and the poor organization of society and poor integration of information.

An alternative is to join a coalition that refuses to use AI, and only consume content created by the coalition.

Reminder this is the guy who had a good time meditating in the middle of the Rohingya genocide.