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Heavenbanning is a hypothetical way to moderate social networks. Instead of being thrown off the platform, bad actors have all their followers replaced with sycophantic AI models that constantly agree and praise them.
52 things I learned in 2022 Tom Whitwell 2022
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Heavenbanning is the practice of subjecting people to fake realities in which they are well-liked, high-status and admired in order to mitigate inconvenient behaviour, for instance on social media (on which instantiation of and exposure of users to LLM-based simulacra is easy to engineer).
Heavenbanning 2026
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The theoretical practice of creating an AI-powered filter bubble to disarm online trolls is known as “heavenbanning”. This week, Twitter user @nearcyan proposed the dystopic near-future use of social media and user group sites to create artificial intelligence users that wholeheartedly agree with a toxic user’s behavior, in an effort to defuse them.
“Heavenbanning”, and The Celebration of Insincerity Future Commerce 2024
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I guess the more online term for this would be "heavenbanning", where your digital social circle is quietly replaced or supplanted by LLMs operated by malicious actors (who also happen to be the owners of the platforms).
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