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With all that ML stuff going on we can no longer trust our devices to guarantee authenticity of their behaviour. By that, I mean we can no longer be sure that the human voice produced by the speaker of our handheld computers is happening because a human somewhere else spoke to a microphone.

Unfortunately the move towards it is nothing new, we gradually lost text and images and now the remaining media is closing.

This will probably decimate online public forums completely and off-person communications will en up being P2P through trusted devices. Closed communities in WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord already replaced forums.

Maybe if infestation of closed communities with machines becomes a thing, maybe the real life gatherings will make a comeback?

I don't know but I used to mock Sci-Fi movies about portraying aliens as uncivilised that don't seem to have the means to have developed all that tech but I'm no longer sure. Maybe what will happen is, we will create a symbiotic life where machine will no longer be tools but partners and they will take care of us to reduce us to our basic instinct.



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