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This was inevitable since Elon’s original shitpost tweet about wanting to buy Twitter and “authenticate all real humans”. Presumably to differentiate them from bots (including AI bots).

Problem I have with this (lol let’s just focus on this one thing right here for a sec) is that there’s absolutely no telling what exceptions Xitter will make and for who. No way to verify it

We can probably expect to see a heck of a lot more of this stuff in future, beyond Xitter and on many other places on the internet, once the scale of the AI problem grows and/or is understood. Perhaps eventually the expectation will be that every piece of posted content will have to be cryptographically signed with a “real human”s identifier(s)

So yeah that’d be the death of the anonymous and pseudonymous internet. It sucks. I don’t see any other way around it, though I will say I’ve already had some decent conversations with entities I know to be characters from LLM output