HACKER Q&A
📣 ghoshbishakh

What will happen to social media?


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.


  👤 eimrine Accepted Answer ✓
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.

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

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

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