iamtrask says bot-infested feeds are unfixable — the future is email plus a web of trust
iamtrask · x · 2026-11-11
Responding to complaints that half of X replies are now AI bots, researcher iamtrask argues the problem is unfixable at the platform level: future human communication will retreat to email exchanges intermediated by your social graph — people you know, people they know. He envisions code-generated UIs layered on inboxes, web-of-trust email identity verification, and hybrid blends, with no inherent scale limit. He followed up conceding it might be fixable after all.
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