i agree with so much here. its hard to know quite where to take it. Trusting that the person you followed is real i feel is going to be a big thing in the future. perhaps like hive with "trust" scores embedded into accounts. not just likes and follower counts.

I am getting SO SO SO SO SO (can i be more clear) sick of watching a video getting interested and then being like.... OMG is this AI and that is NOT what i want. The amount of deepfakes. its scary. I consider myself fairly tech literate. However i am struggling with it. I wish people would just declare. like i think we will reach the point that people wont care, and they can look up videos and be like... yeah i will watch this its good (and know instantly its AI) and sometimes you just want Authentic people.

There are so many trends in youtube at the moment, where it used to be the "slickest most fancy" videos that were super popular, and now, quite often as long as audio is ok, people are trusting the less slick more human videos as they are more real.

I do worry about AI bots on here though... like its bad enough when you realize that you have been upvoting a "taker". There is an account that MUST be AI in some way... it posts a flower, or other dumb photo.. and then a very generic post that is made to sound legit. And this person does LOTS and LOTS of commenting... and i was always pleased as the account ALWAYS commented. and then after about a year, i looked at the wallet, and every sent bar about 200 hive was being extracted and the KE score was like 17.

So....... i stopped voting is comments (but replied to them so still engaging) as as soon as i stopped money voting his posts... POOF he went onto greener pastures.

Anyway sorry for the pre coffee morning ramble.