Imagine you go to an online forum and that there is a 99.99% chance that a given message was written by a bot. Imagine further they are sufficiently well written you can't tell from the post itself whether it was made by a bot or not How would people respond to that?
Well the obvious consequence is that you have to stop paying attention to random posts. You have to depend on something outside of the forum itself to find a list of people to pay attention to. That will be your friends and your family. And then it will be whatever media tells you to pay attention to.
Getting out of your filter bubble will be impossible because as soon as you step out you are faced by an onslaught of bots.
Maybe you could travel around IRL and acquire a diverse list of voices that way. But realistically only the elite could afford that.
Actually lets be even more cynical. Say you go traveling, meet someone. You add them on a social network. But it's not them it's a bot. And they get a few bucks for selling your eyeballs.
But then we can even further imagine that you follow them with a fake account too, and so the eyeballs were actually worthless.
Well the obvious consequence is that you have to stop paying attention to random posts. You have to depend on something outside of the forum itself to find a list of people to pay attention to. That will be your friends and your family. And then it will be whatever media tells you to pay attention to.
Getting out of your filter bubble will be impossible because as soon as you step out you are faced by an onslaught of bots.
Maybe you could travel around IRL and acquire a diverse list of voices that way. But realistically only the elite could afford that.
Actually lets be even more cynical. Say you go traveling, meet someone. You add them on a social network. But it's not them it's a bot. And they get a few bucks for selling your eyeballs.
But then we can even further imagine that you follow them with a fake account too, and so the eyeballs were actually worthless.