With the increasing amount of generative AI content, the greater risk to free speech is not explicit censorship, but in widespread confusion and mistrust.
As people feel more fragmented, they feel more disconnected, and they feel more lost. Community networks of trusted relays could provide protective measures against this.
Web of trust. I think people will go back to people they really know, and people who people they really know really know. Might not be too bad, a reversion to the historical norm. Will be weird though.
It still has global scale though. There are plenty of people I trust on nostr that I don’t know outside of nostr.
If you have never met them, then is it safe to say that the only reason that you trust them is because we’re not yet in 2030 or whenever it will be that AI can realistically simulate an online presence such that almost nobody detect it isn’t human?
Another path forward is that people will have tons of friends. They will all be super attractive, engaging, smart, funny, thoughtful, and none of them will be real. Honestly seems more likely.
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