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).

  1. They now can identify who is human and who is AI slop machine, or enough to appease the advertisement goons

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  • IratePirate@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • kieron115@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      14 hours ago

      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.

      https://github.com/xvzc/SpoofDPI plus a browser fingerprinting blocker.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • plyth@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        9 hours ago

        Why are you given adverts for products you’ve just bought?

        You could return it. They have to make sure that you stick to your choice.