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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead' (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 4 months ago by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/technology@piefed.social
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  • Alexis Ohanian said that the internet is less human now, and much more "quasi-AI."
  • "I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge that's verifiably human," he said on TBPN.
  • Ohanian mentioned the "dead internet theory," which Sam Altman has also recently referenced.
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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So, is there a way for us to be that next generation where we can verify that we're human?

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dicks out for verification

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

What… what if you don’t have one…?

[–] Bonus@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago

I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

No one said it had to be yours.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

~They do make strap ons.~

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A dick is just a clitoris that got reconfigured by one's genetics prior to birth, I'm sure those would count too. The few folk with rare genetic conditions that cause them to be born without any genitals at all will be out of luck though.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

the default sex is female, if the anti-meullerian hormone isnt for some reason released in male fetal development. or the sry gene in the y chromosone is misisng.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

No, you misunderstand. Dicks are out for verification. We need a new method that doesn’t depend on the patriarchy.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Use your local equivalent!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Humanity isn't something we verify it is something we cultivate.

The obsession with verification comes from an empty conception about humanity.

The question isn't really how do we verify which of us is human, the question is what spaces have degraded sufficiently that the mark of human interaction is no longer discernible in the noise and what are the mechanisms in which they have done so?

Systematic tolerance or indifference to hatespeech is one great way to degrade the humanity of a space for example.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, just let Sam Altman scan your eyeballs with an orb and he'll certify you're human. Nothing dystopian about that and certainly no potential for abuse.