@simon have you considered implementing MCP support so you can have all the things? Eg https://github.com/MCP-Mirrors/

@briankrebs I feel like there’s a lot of “engagement” on Twitter/X which looks good on paper with the numbers and the retweets and all that, but let’s be real the vast majority of it is bot activity, but if you work at the newspaper and your job is to get the numbers up, you’re not gonna wanna say hey 99% of this activity on Twitter/X is completely useless and possibly even detrimental. I feel like a lot of organizations have bad metrics, driving bad decisions and bad behaviors , especially when it comes to the use of social media. Basically it’s an emperor has no clothes kind of situation but also the town folk don’t have any clothes either. If we all pretend it’ll be fine.

@briankrebs do they at least rate limit it, eg once in a while? One a day? One an hour?

@briankrebs that’s actually tied to something that matters matters (possibly more than an email address to many) and has a high degree of public transparency. It’s actually really clever.

I really wonder what’s gonna happen over the next few decades as people die off and their email address addresses are … released back into the pool? Same for domain names.

@briankrebs I wish I was that popular.

@briankrebs so I’ve been looking at this from the combination perspective of dead Internet theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory) and AI generated slop essentially being a very expensive DDoS attack against layer seven (the people) especially in the context of things like security reports, pull requests, filing issues, and so on, where not only does someone generate a piece of information using AI very efficiently and cheaply, especially at scale, but this is then very inefficiently processed by a human, but often by the most expensive and rare human, such as accord developer for that project or the owner of that blog.

I suspect the solution will be similar to spam blocking, extracting signals from the text and how it got there at the IP address, the author and so on, as well as the allow listing component, so a mastodon and who I follow is a perfect example of that. The problem though is that email is very expensive to run now and you generally have to use a centralized platform for spam control. We’ve already seen this happen with WordPress and akismet anti-Spam for example, but now it is going to happen for everywhere text and content is generated and sent and processed by humans. Also CAPTCHA won’t work for two reasons: 1) the AI is better than us now, 2) humans will just fill up the CAPTCHA and then cut and paste their slop in.

And then there’s the whole thing with companies like meta-generating bots and actually embracing AI slop on their own platform. I have no idea how that’s gonna turn out, but I can’t help but think it might be a bit of a doom loop.

I still need to do some more research into this and some more thinking, but I don’t see a rainbow at the end of the tunnel.