most of the time you’ll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they’re gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate thousands of comments and posts, all to support your corporate agenda.

for example you can set it to hate a public figure and force negative commentary into conversations all over the site. you can set it to praise and recommend your latest product. like when a pharma company has a new pill out, they’ll be able to target self-help subs and flood them with fake anecdotes and user testimony that the new pill solves all your problems and you should check it out.

the only real humans you’ll find there are the shills that run the place, and the poor suckers that fall for the scam.

it’s gonna be a shithole.

  • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is already happening.

    Bots are being used to astroturf the protests on Reddit. You can see at the bottom how this so-called “user” responds “as an AI language program…”

    • Arotrios@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Holy fucking shit I’m dying. That’s fucking hilarious.

      I now want to make a bot that detects bots, grades their responses as 0% - 100% bot, posts the bottage score, and if they determine bottage, engage the other bot in endless conversation until it melts down from confusion.

      We can live stream the battles. We’ll call the show Babblebots.

      Any devs interested?

        • Empyreal@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Or its another form of a human-monitored bot account. Those have existed for years

          Or its just another bot response. I’ve had arguments with bots that I have banned from my subreddit before. Some of their response mechanisms are quite creative.