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 Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:31 am Post subject: AeroElectric-List: |
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I'm surprised you are surprised. Spam is a small problem right now compared to what is coming.Â
Currently, large sections of the internet are constantly under attack by advertisers and criminals. I was a moderator on one of the world's biggest aviation forums and for every legitimate new member who joined and posted, there were 10 ads or scams. In order to prevent the board from being completely flooded, we had to block all new user's posts from being visible until a moderator had checked it and decided whether or not it was legitimate. This means that the spammers and scammers found it worthwhile to create new accounts (as laborious a process as we could reasonably make it) and then post dozens of messages from that account despite 99.999% of those messages never being visible to anyone. Every once in a while there was a real human involved in trying to get spam through and sometimes they succeeded, usually by copying an existing post.
Right now the flood is being kept at bay fairly easily by a few minor inconveniences for new users and a lot of effort by unpaid volunteers. Keep in mind though that there is an almost unlimited amount of money being spent on programming AI systems that will get much, much better at pretending to be humans on the internet. Right now, over half of all emails in the world are spam. In the next 50 years I think we will see 99% of internet traffic turn into AI systems trying to figure out ways to advertise and scam the humans still trying to enjoy this technology. It's going to get to the point where the only way you will be allowed to communicate with anyone over the internet (and phone system for that matter) will be to have someone already in the system vouch for you. Unless you know someone who can physically confirm that you exist and can pass that introduction on to others, it will be assumed that you're an AI and you will be blocked.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 9:52 AM Roger & Jean <rnjcurtis(at)charter.net (rnjcurtis(at)charter.net)> wrote:
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