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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wonder if any are on Lemmy doing that mess?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Honestly, dead internet theory isn't a theory anymore, it's just a fact. And social media has become a contagion. I wonder if a good large CME would fix things, or just delay the problem.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They defininetly are, every social platform they can. youtube, facebook, ticktock, twitter instagram, line, bluesky, etc. If they can get usefull training data for their AI they will infect any and EVERY place people interact with. Heck theres even those ones in the past done on 4chan by a youtuber.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These meta/palentir/alphabet people think by appropriating our minds and fusing themselves with silicone, they will become the omniscient gods that never die. Imagine when the ai parts of themselves discover organic material degrades, and decide to self-repair.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

All things come into being and pass away. There is a natural balance and order to the universe and interference will lead to natural resets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I mean it’s not unique to AI training. Fake profiles/catfishing have been around since the dawn of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely, certain communities in all of the most popular instances seem to almost exclusively host bot interactions. Some other very popular communities have a more even distribution of humans to bots.