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<h1>Human connections in the early days of AI</h1>
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<p><span style="float:right;"><em>2025-06-03</em></span></p>
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<p><em>Special thanks to <a href="https://dhole.github.io">dhole</a> for review and suggestions.</em></p>
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<h3>1. Online world as an extension of physical world</h3>
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<p>IRL stands for ‘in real life’, used to describe the <em>offline</em> life of a person.
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Many years ago, people started to notice that the online world is not
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disconnected from the physical world, furthermore, it can be seen as an
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extension of it. This was observed by the Invisible Committee:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p><em>[…] if the hacker is ahead of his time it’s because he “didn’t think of this tool [the Internet] as a separate virtual world but as an extension of physical reality.”</em>
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<span style="float:right;">‘To our friends’ - by The Invisible Committee, 2014</span>
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<p>We’ve seen examples of this over the past couple of decades; with social
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networks and their impact on professional politics and people’s lives, but also
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with cryptocurrencies, which on the early days most people considered them not
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real money (not part of <em>reality</em>), while few hackers already saw them as a valid
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form of currency.</p>
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<p>Another example was the <a href="https://youtu.be/KCAGb7oSwDs?t=72">usage of “AFK”</a> by
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the ThePirateBay founders, to refer to the world offline (instead of “IRL”):</p>
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<p><em>“We don’t use the expression IRL, we say ‘Away From Keyboard”, AFK; we think
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the internet is for real”</em> - Peter Sunde, 2009</p>
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<h3>2. HyperReality</h3>
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<p>The offline world being extended by the online world brings us a form of
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality"><em>hyperreality</em></a>.
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The simplified idea is that on top of <em>the reality</em> we create the hyperreality,
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where traits from reality are enhanced, exaggerated, to the point where it’s not
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the original reality but something more, still to be consumed as reality.</p>
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<p>The music analyst Jaime Altozano <a href="https://youtu.be/ySa67e0jKNA?t=759">links</a>
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this concept (hyperreality) together with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus">supernormal
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stimulus</a> to the widespread
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usage of autotune and similar tools, not for robotic-voice effects that we
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usually identify as ‘autotune’, but for any singer that thanks to autotune
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sounds ‘more natural’ with better pitch, without notes out of place (both live
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and on record).</p>
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<p>Another example are the instagram filters, which while allowing people to
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‘enhance’ their pictures, they define a new hyperreality of (among others)
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smooth skin and white teeth, which renders the physical world not good enough
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compared to the online filtered and enhanced hyperreality; this affects back to
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the physical world, with people wanting to emulate the hyperreality that they
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get in the online world into the physical world, resulting, for example, in the
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increase of plastic surgery interventions and into teeth whitening treatments.
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<br>People want to see their instagram filters in their mirror.</p>
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<h3>3. Moving from content production to content consumption</h3>
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<p>Before the era of AI-content-generation tools, we were already seeing the normal
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users (non-socialmedia-influencers) reducing their amount of posts creation on
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the various social networks. The main chunk of the population was already on a
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timid trend of reducing active production of content towards a more consumerism
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role of social networks, where the production of content is left mostly in the
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hands of a reduced minority (influencers, ‘content creators’).</p>
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<img src="img/posts/ai/idiocracy-couch.jpg" style="max-width:300px;
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<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:80%;">Optimized <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqQ6D0Bu-a8" target="_blank">couch from Idiocracy</a> movie.
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<p>In the early days of social networks, people were sharing their daily life
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experiences. As attention-gathering professionals (aka. influencers & marketing
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professionals) started to proliferate, people reduced their rate of post
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publishing, moving from a content-creation usage of social networks towards a
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content-consumption kind of usage.</p>
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<p>Part of it might be due to just tiredness of the dynamics, in part as
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consequence of the algorithms of the social networks being silently reshaped
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towards exploiting human psychology for the respective app profit, or even due
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cyber-maturing of the users; but it seems plausible that part of the reasons are
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related to the attention-gathering professionals dominating those networks.</p>
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On top of all those trends, this past year we’ve experienced an acceleration of
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the enshittification of the major online social networks, the catalyst of it
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being the usage of AI to generate content.</p>
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<h3>4. aicceleration of the enshittification</h3>
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<p>Social networks like reddit, since are mostly text based, were the first to be
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hit by the first wave of AI-generated content. They suffered a substantial
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<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1jojjdj/anyone_else_noticed_many_aigenerated_text_posts/">increase</a>
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of the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ap2fzi/reddit_slowly_being_taken_over_by_aigenerated/">AI bloat</a>
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over <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadInternetTheory/comments/1kauscy/spotted_on_reddit_ai_responding_to_an_aiwritten/">this</a>
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past year, with ‘real’ users not being happy about it, usually flagging the
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AI-generated posts, which become more common each day. In the long term, users
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get fed up and migrate to other similar platforms with less AI bloat for the
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moment.</p>
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<p>A potential conclusion is that, generally speaking, people don’t feel eager to
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spend (or waste) time to read AI-generated content that tries to appear as
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human-generated. They want to read content from other real humans. As mentioned,
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the result is that people get burned out from the platform.</p>
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With the <a href="https://youtu.be/zmlbAbWQCVY">refinement</a> of AI-generated video,
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similar effects can happen on other social networks; it’s now easier to generate
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attention-gathering content for instagram, facebook, tiktok, etc.</p>
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<h3>5. Two overlapping worlds</h3>
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<p>Leaving aside the implications around political manipulation and social
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disinformation, this can lead to two main outcomes with regards users relations
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with the online social networks (which both can overlap at different ratios):</p>
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<p>The obvious one is a bit of a dystopian future where people get more addicted to
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social networks to get the daily dopamine shots
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(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World)">soma</a> style), and they
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prefer that to the physical world experiences.</p>
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<p>I would like to be a bit more optimistic and imagine a trend of people getting
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burned out by the AI-bloat and moving away from online social networks; valuing
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more real-human connections (which can happen also online, but filtering out AI
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content).
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This might result in a deepening of physical world connections, together with a
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revaluation of the physical world experiences (the famous <em>“touching grass”</em>
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meme), as a counterweight to the fake AI-generated hyperreality of the online
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social networks.</p>
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<p>Online social networks could stop being <em>“the place where you get news from your
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friends lifes”</em> as it was some years ago, to become another cog of the
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machinery that provides passive entertainment (together with streaming services
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such as youtube, netflix, etc.), while the real-social connections happen
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offline, where AI can not easily inject content.</p>
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<p><br>
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It could be the case too, that the platforms react to the AI-bloat and adapt the
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algorithms to avoid exhausting their users, therefore avoiding the mass exodus,
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since it would affect their bussiness. In any case, I encourage you to
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strengthen your bonds with your friends, family and communities :)</p>
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<h3><span style="font-size:85%">[zkSummit12 talk]</span> Sonobe, a modular folding schemes library</h3>
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