From: user8921@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Water Fountain  posted:   
      
   > I lost the link because I saved it somewhere on my old laptop, but there   
   > was someone running a bot on reddit, commenting and having discussion   
   > with people without them even realizing that they were talking to a   
   > machine... back in 2018.   
   >   
   > Ironically, the future of internet discourse is in small communities   
   > that are too insignificant to bot, just like how the internet started.   
   > Even if sites like facebook on plebbit decided to enforce RealID™ with   
   > the promise that you would only be talking to real people... how could   
   > you trust that the site itself isn't running bots to talk with you? Or   
   > that interested actors couldn't simply create entirely fake people?   
   >   
   At least you guys are all real, right?   
      
      
   Right??   
      
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