This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

I sometimes wonder whether the end result of this proliferation of bots is the creation of a "premium" Internet where you are authenticated as a real person before entering. I don't mean a walled garden or a gated platform like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. I mean some sort of application layer protocol running on top of TCP that has real world authentication built in. Any application built on top of that protocol is guaranteed to be used by only real human beings.

I hope it will actually result in more real-life engagement throughout society once most people realize personas on the internet are for the most fake. Also -- disappearing messages by default!