When it comes to "nobody wants to spend enough money to do moderation and anti-abuse well", it makes me wonder: Whatever happened to early PGP-era ideas that we'd somehow establish new webs of distributed trust and distrust of online identities?
I guess we sorta kinda have a little of that in the form of social-media accounts that get "trusted" based on the number of followers and their followers' followers and bots all the way down, etc. Or PageRank and SEO exploitation.
Society better figure something out soon, because with all these ultra realistic deepfakes coming up, we better have a way for people to establish whether the source is authentic or not.
I guess we sorta kinda have a little of that in the form of social-media accounts that get "trusted" based on the number of followers and their followers' followers and bots all the way down, etc. Or PageRank and SEO exploitation.