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zombiecide　馬雄zombiecide@polyglot.city
Mar 11, 2026, 9:37 AM
@riley Long before the advent of chatbots I found myself musing about the role "trust" plays when receiving information, based on personal interaction in primary groups, based on roles in secondary groups, based on rules and regulation in tertiary groups, and how internet interaction was a new type that could be any of those or different, but many people tend to use primary group patterns and assumption of familiarity, like conning yourself
chatbots do this as a service?
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Riley S. Faelanriley@toot.cat
Mar 11, 2026, 9:46 AM
@zombiecide Well, what did your pondering found out about the combination of — it's purely hypothetical, with absolutely no connection to anything in real world because nobody would ever do something silly like that — the possibility of applying trust heuristics to a bunch of anonymous people writing in a wikiwiki about the sort of stuff that one might look up in an encyclopædia?
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zombiecide　馬雄zombiecide@polyglot.city
Mar 11, 2026, 9:54 AM
@riley funnily enough, in the time between those first, completely unquantifiable, musings and now many people's trust in a wikiwiki encyclopædia increased a lot, partly maybe because of the transparency of its process, and to another part, maybe due to familiarity? with discussions in the media, at school and workplaces about when and how and what for to trust
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