Transgender

To be honest, I use the internet in a fundamentally solipsistic way. I derive truthful information from books published more than 2 years ago, peer reviewed studies, or irl conversation, which I often fact check afterwards. Replying is a low risk, medium reward activity, by comparison, so why not? At least, that’s how I see it.

I think you might have the opposite view to my own, as far as ai goes. It’s not so much that conversation has grown abased, so much as ai has advanced to the point that it’s capable of being a near facsimile of it. Humanity just built a machine that makes sentences and it’s pretty good at it.

I agree with you somewhat, but the internet is largely children and no one really knows what’s real or not. The number of times I’ve done something stupid due to a little niggling voice that says “do it” is uncountable. It takes far less to cause someone to go against their interests than most people believe. Always has, always will.

As people have become kinder online, they’ve also grown more stagnant. Free expression births beauty and horror in equal measure. The Wild West old internet wouldn’t tolerate trans people, so I can’t really say concretely which I prefer.