Ask HN: What will happen to social media?

by ghoshbishakh on 12/7/2024, 7:02:32 AM with 9 comments
With the incoming AI agents, I am pretty sure social media teams will be run mostly by these LLM bots. I am already observing accounts replying to every post on my feed.

Soon social media is going to be filled with bots posting content, and other bots commenting, re-sharing, and upvoting content. Quora already has an "Assistant" answering each and every question.

I am sure I will not stick around to scroll through such AI generated content.

With image generation models, even instagram is not going to be spared it seems. However, I am optimistic that video still has time. Most popular video contents usually have a human element with some presenter or subject doing or saying something interesting which is still hard using gen AI.

  • by eimrine on 12/7/2024, 8:09:38 AM

    Thank you for a legit insight about video. My guess is changing to micropayments, like you should pay 0.01$ or less to be able to write one comment, also the price could be higher for participating in controversial topics.

  • by Engineering-MD on 12/7/2024, 9:19:36 PM

    Perhaps we will return to meeting in real life. Physical presence probably has a few decades left before robots are indistinguishable from humans

  • by meiraleal on 12/9/2024, 12:18:43 AM

    Hopefully! that will be the comeback of blogs and personal websites.

  • by souvic on 12/7/2024, 7:18:51 AM

    Dead internet will soon be a reality with AI agent zombies flooding it!