Core Tenets:
- You get one account – that’s it.
- There is no “one” algorithm
- There are no community moderators, only sherpas
- It’s all attribute tags
- AI acts as a helper, NEVER as a creator (this post!)
- A centralized platform
Tenant #5: AI acts as a helper, NEVER as a creator
On any new social media platform, you should never wonder if something was primarily created by a human or an AI. Similarly, you should never wonder if you are talking to a bot, or a bot is talking to you. Trust needs to be key to the platform – once that trust breaks down, it becomes hard to trust anything.
To that end, AI’s main purposes on a social media platform should be the following:
- To help assign attribute tags to users, comments, and posts
- This helps Sherpas rank / format / filter content
- To give assistance to users participating in a certain community
- E.g. helping new users get answers to questions that veteran users are sick of seeing (solving the “New users bringing the same questions” problem)
- To give data to users based on data it knows
- E.g. things that can be easily solved via an integration, an API, etc: “What’s the weather in Tokyo”
Regardless of when an AI is introduced into a social media platforms systems, it should always be clear to the end user when the content generated was fully or partially generated by AI, so they can know when real humans ended and generated content began.