{"id":4361,"date":"2018-12-28T04:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T04:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:10:47","slug":"how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much of the Internet Is Fake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is obviously not real human traffic. But what would real human traffic look like? The Inversion gives rise to some odd philosophical quandaries: If <\/span><\/span>a Russian troll using a Brazilian man\u2019s photograph to masquerade as an American Trump supporter<\/a> <\/span>watches a video on Facebook, is that view \u201creal\u201d? Not only do we have bots masquerading as humans and humans masquerading as other humans, but also sometimes humans masquerading as bots, pretending to be \u201c<\/span>artificial-intelligence personal assistants<\/a>,\u201d like Facebook\u2019s \u201cM,\u201d in order to help tech companies appear to possess cutting-edge AI. We even have <\/span><\/span>whatever CGI Instagram influencer Lil Miquela is<\/a>: a fake human with a real body, a fake face, and real influence. Even humans who aren\u2019t masquerading can contort themselves through layers of diminishing reality: <\/span><\/span>The Atlantic<\/a><\/i> <\/a><\/span>reports that non-CGI human influencers are posting fake sponsored content<\/a> <\/span>\u2014 that is, content meant to look like content that is meant to look authentic, for free \u2014 to attract attention from brand reps, who, they hope, will pay them real money.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Posting mostly for the tangential collection of links in this paragraph: This is obviously not real human traffic. But what would real human traffic look like? The Inversion gives rise to some odd philosophical quandaries: If a Russian troll using a Brazilian man\u2019s photograph to masquerade as an American Trump supporter watches a video on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-18l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}