AI x social platforms

Search engines built an ecosystem that benefited publishers and the platforms,but publishers see those same platforms as continually taking more value from the relationship -- as seen in efforts to force intermediation like AMP, and now AI, where sites get drastically reduced traffic in exchange for nothing at all.

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In a world where AI agents are running wild, will we see a new wave of online social spaces that are “human only” - or at least “human verified”?

What are the tradeoffs between Government ID vs. “Selfie verification” (Bumble-style) vs. organizations acting as verifiers (Bluesky-style) vs. peer-to-peer “vouch for humanity” (lobste.rs-style) vs.

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I am more inclined to the argument that artificial intelligence is, rather than an imaginative agent, part of a lineage of cultural technologies that have allowed us to encode and access the intelligence of other humans across generations, just as internet search and libraries and print and the writing system have, just as language itself has.

We’re excited to announce beta access to customizable attributes for Perspective API. Customizable attributes enable users to provide their community’s guidelines in natural language and receive a score that reflects whether any given comment was consistent with them. This capability, built with the latest Gemini models, empowers any user, from... See more