• TaygetaDuck@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile all of the repost bots can post and comment on each other’s threads keeping the Reddit server humming away.

    Good riddance.

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      1 year ago

      It’s kinda funny in a dystopian way.

      A lonely guy playing a creepy hentai game gets some sexual gratification from his time spent interacting with a piece of software and is at least somewhat self-aware. He knows it’s just software, even if he ‘married’ his bodypillow.

      Meanwhile there are increasing numbers of people unaware they’re regularly interacting with bots online, not realising one of the reasons social media is making them sadder is because they’ve atttempting to fulfill their need for social interaction with a facsimile thereof.

      It’s not unlike Idiocracy, where they give the plants Brawndo instead of water, then wonder why the plants are dying. Vast swathes of the world are feeding their social needs with social media brawndo.

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        On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a bot

        Also you’re blaming the medium, rather than the malicious actors.

        If AI text generative technology was around a century earlier you’d have people being penpals or print newspaper write-ins with a bot instead. Communicating through text is inherently risky, so best to blame the people who abuse that fact instead.

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          you’re blaming the medium

          I don’t think that’s implied in the post. Also reddit inc is complicit in the bot farming since it boosts their engagement metrics.

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      At some point, it will just be repost bots having conversations in the comments of posts “created” by other repost bots.