218 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b OP 25 Mar \ parent \ on: Will AI end the social internet? AI
Oh I agree it'll be worth it on net. But do we measure people as an aggregate? Would we displace Wayne with an artificial Wayne that's pleasant and not sense something lacking? Is Wayne more than his aggregate? idk. I guess I hope so.
I think another clue to how this will evolve is that I've replaced a chunk of my time talking to flesh and blood people I know with talking to you and other SN peeps, many of whom I feel significant friendly feelings toward. In a way, ya'll are artificial beings, and yet I invest a stunning amount of time in these "relationships" and this "community."
I include the scare quotes because that's how it would be perceived to a lot of other people; and yet I don't even think about it at all. It's just another dimension to sociality that I incorporate with the rest, another point in the high-dimensional space of relating to other beings, where "beings" will likely turn into its own high-dimensional space I navigate more or less fluidly.
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I think you're right. We will layer in artificial friends, like we do internet friends now, as they will fill a niche in our social needs-space.
The prediction I'm kind of making is this though: if artificial internet people out number real internet people and we can't tell the difference between artificial and real internet people, AI will destroy our ability to know we are making internet friends with real people. And I'm curious how we'll behave when that happens.
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Like we'll have a general agnosticism about whether they're human or AI? Or at least, a fuzzy ambiguity about it?