Also:

I’d love to do case studies on the real people at the end of these things.

Like, who is scrolling Facebook and Insta to thirst over algorithmic posts, yet is somehow unaware of the generative explosion?

Do they know, and just don’t care? Do they think they could tell if an image is fake, or is it true unawareness?

What do they do in real life? What are their relationships like?

How does this system work.

I think it’s easy to assume they’re all basement dwellers or whatever, but one could stereotype Lemmy the same way, and that’s just not true.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, such studies must exist. I don’t want to fall into the “I didn’t even try to search for the answer” thing.

But all this has happened so fast. And clearly the studies aren’t being acted on…