Reddit is definitely overtaken with astroturf at this point. Especially in any subreddit where there is any kind of business interest in doing so.
They’re getting 200m a year to share that garbage pit with ai training.
Its still annoyingly addictive but its half story telling and half bubble with a sprinkle of porn and niche interests.
But what does an anon-free internet even look like? Is it even possible? Or will all online content eventually be considered untrustable and worthless? You can see a world where newspapers (online or otherwise) make a comeback simply because of the need for a trusted gatekeeper (which is what I imagine made them valuable in the first place). It's wild to think about.
Very few things in life experience exponential growth and assembled systems don't often stay that way if they don't become sigmoidal. ie its exponential and end is nigh xor its exponential then sigmoidal xor linear.
Also a bit hilarious to believe that a single 3 month cycle at TSMC could determine a severe amount of propped valutions.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/943066/tsmc-ai-demand-struggle...
We are in 2026, supply chains are highly optimized which means we could make and deliver a lot of robots in a relative short period of time.
We also have solved all fundamental issues we had 20 years ago like communication thanks to the internet, translation and co.
We know have a system, which can be copy and pasted and run in parallel with a snap of a finger.
If (and this If is not that crazy) some breakthrough happens tomorrow, this can be used the day after tomorrow.
I currently say that it could become very very interesting in 5-15 years. I still follow AI very closely and i do not have the feeling anything is slowing down.
And independent of something happening, a lot of people did not find jobs due to this AI investment, a lot of jobs already disappeared too.
Geopolitical and other risks exist here. The future isnt doom and gloom but it isnt exponentials and sunshine either.
OP has been here for over a decade and has loads of activity.
You aren't in a position to post this.
And GenAI to mass produce misinformation and propoganda is a whole other thing. You see this right now with the Alberta sepratists in Canada. Comparing this to pollution like a means to an end is dismissive.
