Source: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/2032600868005310638#m
Yeah, so basically the current prevailing schizo internet theory is that AI nerds have destroyed the internet and created infinite spam.
The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human. The advertisement goons no longer want to pay as much to social media networks.
Social media networks, in full blown panic of losing potential revenue, decided to lobby governments saying “we gotta protect the kids! ID everyone to protect the kids from pedophiles!”.
The social media networks know this doesn’t really protect kids. But, it does two things (and a third accidentally).
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They now can identify who is human and who is AI slop machine, or enough to appease the advertisement goons
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Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something, so with ID verification they can say with confidence they’re not advertising to children because it’s been ID verification. Basically, they can weed out the children and focus on advertising to adults
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The feds can now tell who is human and who is AI slop. This inadvertently helps them with tracking people and serving fresh daily dumps of propaganda, or whatever they want to do.
It’s a win-win-win for advertisers, social media networks, the government, and any business which does data collections.
It fucks over everyone else.
Chat, I’m not going to lie to you. This is an extremely good conspiracy schizo theory and I unironically believe it.
Advertising doesn’t seem like a large enough lever to drive something this globally coordinated.
My read is that governments and large institutions are preparing for the kind of systemic instability climate change is going to produce.
Across the world we’re already seeing laws and policies that quietly restrict the ability to organise, protest, or remain anonymous online, while surveillance capabilities expand at the same time. None of this is particularly popular, yet it keeps happening.
Why?
Because the next few decades are likely to involve continuous pressure from climate-driven problems: migration, water shortages, falling crop yields, energy instability, and the political conflict that follows when resources get tighter.
From that perspective, universal ID verification online isn’t mainly about ads or “protecting the kids”. It’s about mapping who is who, who talks to who, and how information spreads.
If you expect future mass unrest, protest movements, or large-scale political instability, that kind of data becomes extremely valuable.
And historically, elites often choose to invest more effort in managing the consequences of systemic problems than in solving the underlying causes.
So instead of “AI spam broke advertising”, the bigger story might be that institutions are building the infrastructure to monitor and manage populations during a much messier future.
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It is the third option. For a schizo conspiracy it makes a lot of sense.
🧩 Hyper Rationalizing Autistic person here. My condition makes me view reality as systems within systems within systems with infinite recursion.
I have read this post.
I have not detected logical inconsistency in this theory… And all the facts that I know seem to support the hypothesis.
And yes I know I sound like AI. Ironically, AI tools tell me that too. 😅
If anyone wants to introduce a new premise or fact into the hypothetical scenario, I’ll let you know if it makes sense or not (to me).
Humans are illogical creatures who hype over irrational things. Some random key players pulling strings to heard the mob just a little but no greater strategy exists then “make money by any means possible fuck everyone else”"
New premise.
New datacenters are not for AGI and never have been. The are to support the hyper personalisation of advertising that requires a massive surveillance apparatus and data mining operation.
The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human.
Bullshit. Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what’s human traffic and what isn’t. Device identifiers (user agent, IP ranges, browser fingerprint, (lack of) ad id, etc.) and behavioral patterns (including purchase history) differ wildly.
Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something,
Bullshit. Even advertising to kids were outlawed (it isn’t), politicians could be just bought off by advertisers to turn a blind eye. This is particularly true for the land of their formerly free and home of the formerly brave where corruption is now an above-the-counter item, practiced out in the open by the president himself.
Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what’s human traffic and what isn’t.
Over 80% of Twitter’s accounts are actually bots
The difference now is that paying advertisers are demanding proof that their adverts are reaching humans, not bots.
Why are you given adverts for products you’ve just bought? So that paying advertisers can be tricked by the data into thinking their advert resulted in a sale.
I thought land of the free and home of the brave was Scotland
What a beautiful world we live in.
(my first ever post in the fediverse lol)
Just cut off a friend who tried to tell me racism isn’t a choice. Knew him for over a decade but he fell into an algorithm that he became obsessed with. He really believed he was seeing the “truth” finally.
Tell him that thinking white people are genetically predisposed to be racist is Woke 1.0 and belongs in the past. We are on 3.0 now and we call pigs [REDACTED]. (Yes I know you meant he is being turned into Hitler by Instagram, just a joke.)
Average Andrew Tate fan
You’ve made the right choice. Just watch out for the crazies, they mask well.
If of wasn’t Metas involvement, I was thinking it would be the first stab at a social credit system.
Is definitely a ploy to identify us all and certainly not to protect children.
So what every website will have to have age verification? Or else if your website lacks such controls you go to jail?
Eventually every USER will have to be identified on the Internet, to prove their age, so that we know they aren’t children, because we want to protect children.
So I have to allow everything I say or do on the Internet to be exposed to the entire world, because parents can’t be bothered to supervise their children’s Internet use.
Plausible considering it’s been shown that meta is the one responsible for lobbying this shit
and we have upcoming android lockdown👌
Want a real schizo theory?
People are going to use the ID verification thing to see which accounts are child accounts, pull all details for those accounts and make a database of children’s accounts, and then sell that information to bad actors who plan to traffic children.
Palantir Orphan Hunter
Doesn’t even need to be intentional when there are virtually no consequences for leaking that info
I don’t love the word schizo, but otherwise I am on board
Agree because it’s a real mental illness that some people are tornented with, and that word should not be thrown around playfully.
The word I didn’t love from OOP was “unironically.” I truly don’t love that word.
what’s your problem with the word “unironically” ?
I bet they write a 10 paragraph essay on why the word “unironically” is pretentious.
what’s your problem with the word schizo?
Schizophrenia is a real, serious disease. It means a specific diagnosis that isn’t just 🤪
Hazarding a guess that they feel OP is using schizo as a shorthand reference for crazy/delusional, given the context is Internet conspiracy theories. They possibly feel that it is being used as a perjorative which disrespects folks who struggle with schizophrenia. In essence, calling something you find crazy “schizo” is the same as calling something you find dumb “retarded”.
I don’t have a dog in the fight one way or the other, but, in the absence of their reply, that’s my assumption.
This is a great answer. It is worth noting that the word “dumb” used to literally mean what we now say is “non-verbal”. Funny how language changes.
See also: “lame”.
Lol, I bet removed is gonna be a slur someday.
The bad news for the AI goons is that the capitalists have squeezed us so hard that we no longer have any money to spend on the products we’re programmed to lust after. Not sure what the end game is.
This is just the beginning.
You think it’s just about ID?
Politicians in both the UK and Australia have spoken about banning VPNs, because VPNs have been used to avoid age verification in those countries.
If you want to see where we’re going, look no farther than Russia’s Internet. Which is currently much worse than China’s.
So be prepared for your service to be degraded to unusability.
Which is stupid. Kids aren’t using vpns. Most good ones cost money. And kids aren’t very tech savvy these days.
Most grow up with phones and tablets only. They don’t even know how to use a keyboard or a PC.
Hello, this was never about kids. Do you routinely believe what politicians are telling you?
I don’t think anyone relevant in Australia has yet suggested banning VPNs. Too much gov infrastructure runs on them.
Well, clearly the government would be an exception, there are always “authorized uses” for every banned thing.
This isn’t even a conspiracy theory, it’s been investigated and found to be mostly true.
That’s actually vx-underground source for this post: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/2032562782248349793#m
I never thought about it until I clicked on this link, but repositories are actually a really good format for investigative journalism. Allows you to organize all the supporting documents alongside the article in an organized way.
It’s great for most written things in society.
Laws? Oh yes, please.
Any official communication? Thank you.
Even mundane things like cooking guides would benefit from history and versioning. Imagine entire family sending their branches for favourite pie/turkey/whatever else.
It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s just corporations and politicians behaving according to individual incentives and communicating about it publicly with a basic level of indirectness to avoid outrage.
I’d argue it also has to do with “AI” training data
Very likely, LLMs tend to collapse when trained on artificial content.
They also want to defer the costs of positively identifying users to the various governments, presumably so it doesn’t eat into their advertising revenue even further.
