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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours 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