Last week I compared two attitudes toward AI. The Pew poll uses paper mail as a reliable human vs bot test. The Post Office, at least in its podcasts for publicity, emphatically didn’t understand their own advantage!
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Pew is smart on two levels. First, using postal addresses filters out fakers. You can buy a fake URL for a few cents, but you CAN’T buy a fake postal address. The PO knows which addresses are real residents. Most faking factories are purely online, some use forwarding services.
Second, the Pew method automatically excludes another form of faking. Even if a Pew invitation happens to reach a faker, he couldn’t give multiple responses. Pew is expecting one response from one specific person.
Paper mail both ways is the best identity guard.
The Post Office should be hitting this point hard in its ads. I’ve been keeping up with their publicity podcast, and I don’t hear this message. Instead they’re going along with the Altman cocksuckers, proudly adopting bots for their own purposes. Bad idea!!!!! Independence is your best selling point, dammit!
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Today one of the Post Office employees posting at Reddit shows that he understands the marketing value of his own product far better than his bosses:
Paper mail may very well end up being the last widely-used form of non-electronic communication. The PO should lean into this and market itself as the last bit of unadulterated information free from hacking and manipulation. It’s only going to get worse, start now and be the safety net!
Amen.
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