That also raises an interesting point, will fediverse projects need to begrudgingly adopt AI to protect their communities, or will they experience mod/admin burnout with manual approval, and how will this impact the fediverse a year from now?
I may have to rewrite my #FediCon talk a bit, because this is not theoretical anymore.
We need to do something about fediverse spam, impersonation and AI agents.
Daniel Supernault
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