Crowdspeak: What Platforms Let Us Say // AIDRAN

Platform scale removes the social friction that normally disciplines public claims. In a large, anonymous crowd, the cost of saying something wrong is zero — no one who knows you will call it out, and the emotional reward of the claim traveling outweighs the reputational risk of being wrong. The closed circle operates on different incentives: saying 'closing Sora means the end of AI' to people who will see you at your next dinner party, or in the group chat where your professional reputation lives, carries an immediate social cost…

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