Wondering how karma / 'popularity contests' on sites like hn will play out in AI infused web.
Armies of bots pushing particular stories on a set of news outlets? AI controlled accounts with sole purpose to downvote (make 'disappear') particular stories? On many sites, AI controlled accounts vastly outnumbering human controlled ones? (turning humans into powerless minority). Websites using methods to verify that users are actually human? (like, send copy of ID or similar). Webs of trust, of people 'vetted' by each other to be real people? AI pushing content so fanatically & everywhere that most of the web turns into garbage blurb? (well.. even more than today ;-)
Interesting times...
