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nicbouyesterday at 12:11 PM5 repliesview on HN

We're dismantling and selling every remaining bit of trust between strangers, hoping to cash out before it's completely gone.

It seems like the only active use case for AI. More of everything! Spam everyone! Drown the world in noise!

I'm just so tired.


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nicbouyesterday at 3:58 PM

To add: I have started getting AI-generated outreach that opens with a personalised compliment, but that is clearly AI-written. I get more of those in a week than I used to get normal outreach in a month.

Planktonneyesterday at 12:55 PM

AI can be very helpful in lots of ways, but I think it's fair to say that it is most powerful as an enabler for bad actors.

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UltraSaneyesterday at 2:53 PM

The only long term solution I can see is the old PGP web of trust where people meet in person to exchange their public keys/certs.

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qoezyesterday at 2:04 PM

America is 'scaling' their low-trust society into the rest of the world and industrial levels