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Ultimately, who is responsible for the content on the platform? Who should be held accountable for shit content? How much privacy are YOU willing to give up in order to ensure that only verified biological humans are on your platform of choice? There's no good answer here, except that maybe we put too much faith in social media and minimized all the ways it touches our lives.
The snake is eating itself. Can't trust Amazon sellers, Google reviews, YouTube videos. Can't trust that there's a real person behind that social media profile. Don't know if the how-to guide was created by a trusted professional or a random ChatGPT subscriber.
Growing pains of the Information Age. Two steps forward, three steps back.
Fortunately for me, and I'm kinda sorry for saying this but, I don't actually care. I was raised to be media literate, how to vet sources, how to meditate on any matter and transform thesis, arguments and analysis into written or spoken word and I am living up to these expectations on my own free will. What somebody else chooses to do on a personal level is up to them. I figure I have about 60 years left to live and by the time the above mentioned skills - or the lack thereof - start to affect society on a level that I as an individual cannot ignore of suffer involuntary consequences of, I will be dead. I think.