The question is, 'Can they make bots and use AI chat bots to pretend to be popular?'.
Wonder what human tests will evolve here. One thing I can be slmewhat sure of is that the majority of people I interact with are human. But hey, you never know for sure.
What's a good 'proof of human' test???
Interesting question, it's gonna be a challenge, but I think the relays are key here, you can make a million bots pretending to be humans but you can't make them pass through paid relays forever ;) you destroy the incentive to create new bots, something that twitter fails miserable because there is no real, and physical punishment when you get banned, called out etc..
Yeah true. Its within twitters interests to have bots actually as it 'fills the room'.
An open protocol that creates a hash of a human fingerprint or biometric that allows verification could be cool. But needs careful thought. I'm not sure captcha would cut it as proof of human.
Metrics around posts that give insight to likelihood of bots might be important also.
All just thinking out loud!!
