@atomicpoet Especially concerning when you consider that in real life we don't spend all our time on social networks trying to discern fake accounts from the real ones.
Too, one might just as easily generate a fake personal website or profile on another platform associated with a fake profile.
I guess ultimately there isn't much we can do about this except keeping in mind that profiles don't necessarily represent any reall person(s).

@atomicpoet welp I can’t share due to this both sides line: “both sides of the debate surrounding the conflict.” There’s no way effin debate, Russia leads an entirely unprovoked bloody assault on Ukraine. Effin period.

@atomicpoet I had foreseen this. Eventually there will come a point where we'll need some kind of authentication method that proves we are human and at the same time not doxx ourselves.

A possible way would be to have some kind of third party like verisign, except instead of verifying domains, they'll verify accounts' personhoods.

The problem then gets more complicated: How can we prevent that service from becoming a corporate silo?

It's not an easy problem!

@atomicpoet They've undoubtedly already begun using social media to conspire against us.

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ReplyGPT, would you write a post about artificial intelligence that seems innocent at first but gets progressively more terrifying?

#chatGPT

@atomicpoet honestly I think it's a big mistake for Mastodon to allow account creation via the API. Yes, you can always use proxies, but the API makes it so much easier and at a larger scale

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Myself and @accesstoken created technology to detect bots on social-media networks about a decade ago.