Luckily there’s a “solution” to that: Just don’t use the internet for dialogue anymore.
As someone that grew up with late-90’s internet culture and has seen all the pros and cons
and changes over the decades, I find myself using the internet less and less for dialogue with people. And I’m spending more time in nature and saying hi to strangers in reality.
I’m still worries about the impact this will have on a lot of people’s ability to reason however. “Just” Tik Tok and apps like it has already had devastating results on certain demographics.
That bit "... there's a "solution"" - does it keep working in societies where there are mega corps pushing billions into developing engaging, compelling and interesting AI companions?
That's why I put it in quotation marks because it is a solution that will remain available, simply because the planet is really big and there'll always be places on the fringes. But it doesn't really solve the problem for society at large, it only solves it for an individual. But sometimes individuals showing other ways of living helps the rest of society see that there's choices where they previously thought there were none.
As someone that grew up with late-90’s internet culture and has seen all the pros and cons and changes over the decades, I find myself using the internet less and less for dialogue with people. And I’m spending more time in nature and saying hi to strangers in reality.
I’m still worries about the impact this will have on a lot of people’s ability to reason however. “Just” Tik Tok and apps like it has already had devastating results on certain demographics.