If it’s the responsibility of the party that’s been misidenified to correct the mistake, this was intentional. Putting fines to random people, knowing a proportion won’t fight it, is a foundationional pillar of Authoritarianism. What’s worse is even more work will now need to be done to undo and correc this, because it’s already in place. The lawmakers will try to get the percentage up, instead of removing the system.
Most people on the internet are lurkers. Most up votes and comments come from maybe 20% of people who actually look at posts. I figured this out within a few weeks of using the Internet. They’re quite literally biting the hand that feeds them. They’re betting you’d rather make a Redddit account than not visit, except that plan no longer holds water in the AI age.
Now AI is probably pushing engagement up artificially. Fewer and fewer real humans will react to posts on the basis that it may not be real, even if they are. So you have a situation where AI interactions increase in proportion to human ones, while also getting more expensive, and pushing out your income stream at the same time.
This kind of boundless stupidity isn’t even really seen, because everyone else is doing as well. People point it out, but we have no real metric for how bad it’s until the stock price starts the slip. Whatever stock of good faith users Reddit once had, are now a dwindling resource, replaced by people trying to game the system.
We cannot stop this in a way that matters. The only way past this shit AI era, is through it.
Making money off vulnerable people who feel wronged, by making money off them for being vulnerabl and feeling wronged. We like to point and laugh, because frankly it’s deserved, but it’s a huge failure of the DNC to ignore and rebuff these people. I don’t see how letting this happen increases the number of people in America who also want to fix it. This is just going to make them more desperate and less cooperative when we might need them the most. We need to be constructive, people are people, no matter what.