The purpose of the re -boot version of the social site DIGG is to bring back the spirit of the old web at a time when AI is threatening to overwhelm traditional social media platforms, and sinks real people’s voices.
According to the Dig founders, it offers the opportunity to create a social site for the AI era, where people who manufacture and manage online communities are put at a big stake in the success of the platform.
The collective giant of a web 2.0 -round news, Dig, was once worth $ 175 million at his height in 2008 and is now being given a new life at the behest of its original founder, Kevin Rose, and Reddate co -founder Alexis Ohian. The two recently designed to announce a new vision for Dig, which would focus on discovering and activating the community, just as the initial Internet allowed.
Speaking in the Wall Street Journal The future of everything The conference on Thursday, the founders offered more insights that they intend to fulfill that goal through Dig Robot.
Initially, both of them faced both issues in the early days of social media, in which Ohaniyan remembered that he had chosen to resign from the Reddest board on disagreement about the company’s hate speech, which he thought was bad for society and business.
For example, the company was allowing A to Called the forum on the Reddate He said that by the mass shooting of Christ Church, “R/Watch Peppeli” continued to work, which attracted the media’s attention. Only then did the Reddate decide to adjust its policies on the platform and adjust its policies around Gore.
After Reddate, Ohian searched for Venture Capital Firm Seven Six, where he says he has focused on building a business that is more “linked to values”. He said he looks at Dig as another step in that direction.
He said that Rose reflected the early days of machine learning, where this technology was often used to reward posts on which people talked about “very unclear, kind of strange quality.”
“Sometimes it can be good, but often, it is really a really strange agenda, and it is not going to the whole boot and AI of things that are also advancing these agendas.”
He said that with Dig, the founders want to create a new community that focuses on the service of real people, not AI or boats.
“I have long taken the ‘dead internet theory’ membership,” Ohian said. Idea What we see online is not mostly made by human beings, but boats. He said that ten years ago, it was a conspiracy theory, but with the rise of AI, it has changed. “Perhaps in the past few years – since we have blow up the touring test in the past – (dead internet theory) is a very real thing.”
He added, “I think the average person has no idea how much content they use on social media, if they are not straightforward boots, there is a human being who uses AI in the loop to manufacture this content on a scale, manipulate and avoid it.”
To remove the rise of boats, the founders are looking at the new technology, like Evidence of zero information – They are imagining communities where organizers can dial the dials, so to talk, to confirm that they are a poster man before allowing them to join the conversation.
Rose indicated, “With AI agents in the world, there is a flood with boats, and it can infiltrate the parties where people are trying to make real human contact. Researchers secretly used AI Bots to pose as real people On a forum to test how AI can affect human opinion.
“We are going to live in a world where we are seeing that we are watching the vast content … some shape or shape, AI-generated, and this is a terrible user experience, if you are coming to a place, it is due to authentic human contact, and it is not with humans,”
He explained that there are many ways in which social sites can check whether there is a person or not. For example, if anyone has made his own device for a long time, he has more weight gain in his comments.
Rose said that the site can also offer service to different levels, based on how likely someone is likely to be human.
If you signed up with an email address away from the throw and used VPN, for example, you may only be able to get recommendations or engage in some easy ways. Or if you were anonymous and typing in the comments very quickly, the site may ask you to take an extra step to prove your humanity – such as verifying your phone number or even if the number you provided was disposable, you receive a small fee.
He confirmed, “The ranks we do is based on how you want to engage and communicate with the original network.”
However, the founders stressed that they were not anti -I. They expect the AI to help in areas such as site moderation, including de -schooling conditions in which a problem begins to cause problems.
In addition to the verification of humans, the founders imagine a service where moderators and creators benefit from their efforts financially. “I am sure that the public is lifting all heavy lifting to form a multi-million public parties, on a day-to-day moderate-scale.
As an instance, he pointed to him Reddet has the term trademark “Wall Street Butts”. Which is the name of one of the forums developed by the Reddest User. Instead, daily believes that a company should help creators who increase the value of a community, do not try to take ownership of their work as Reddit did.
With a better user experience and a combination of a model that gives creators the option to make money from their work, the founders will benefit themselves. “I want to believe in the business model that will make Dig a success,” said Ohanian.