The Bots Are Already in the Room: Social Media's Authenticity Collapse

The moment that defines this story is not a policy announcement or a product launch — it is a Bluesky user stating, without irony, that social media is training people 'to not see the difference between fake and real people.' ^[1] That observation did not come from a researcher or a platform safety team. It came from someone describing their own experience of a feed they no longer trust. The significance is not that the claim is new — it is that it no longer sounds paranoid.