AI Noise Separates Public Feeds and Group Chats
As AI-generated content spreads across] public feeds, private moderated groups give people a practical way to [decide what gets shared and who gets to participate.
Developed from a conversation between Pete Winn and Andy David
Public social platforms are built for reach. Their shared feeds let one person speak to a huge audience, which is useful for marketing but also makes those feeds easy to flood with AI-generated material. Pete contrasted that model with Nostr, decentralised social network that has no single global feed pushing posts to everyone simply because they’ve gone viral. Its design is better suited to connecting with people you want to hear from than broadcasting to everyone at once.
Group chats and moderated forums add a more direct form of control over what gets shared. If someone repeatedly pastes AI slop into a private group, the other participants can remove them. That simple act of moderation lets each group decide what it will tolerate, so useful conversation can continue even as the public internet fills with more generated posts.
These spaces don’t require people to choose one form of internet over another. Someone can spend hours watching TikTok and still participate in group chats with friends, colleagues or communities they trust. Public feeds can remain places for reaching large audiences, while private groups give people more control over what they see and who they interact with. Pete’s point was that the internet doesn’t need to connect everyone to everyone. It just needs to help people connect with those they want to reach.