Dryhurst and pixlpa debate AI arbitraging social media status signals
matdryhurst · x · 2026-10-04
Mat Dryhurst and @pixlpa discuss how social media generated artificial markers of social status and participation, and how people are now arbitraging those signals with AI fabrications. Dryhurst frames the last 25 years of social media as a "casino trip best forgotten" and proposes asking "how would AI make 1999 better?" as a useful lens.
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