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Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users (www.404media.co)

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The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 48 points 3 months ago (15 children)

So the issue here is it was AI this time?

There have been effort by individuals and coordinated groups doing this kind of thing forever. It’s a reminder that you should not fully form your opinion on comments/posts on social media alone.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The issue is, with AI you can have an agent personalized for every person, pretending to be their friend, manipulating them individually, to move society in a way that's negative for 99.999% of people.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

I think that’s hyperbolic (at least at today’s “AI” capabilities) all of the posts and comment in this ”research” were reviewed and posted by a human researcher.

Even if the technology improves to the point where that is no longer necessary. Even the billionaires are finding out you only need a few bad eggs to spoil the basket

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