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Astroturfing things like reddit, twitter, facbook and other forums using AI is likely going to be very effective if it isn't already.
by bhouston 10y ago
Astroturfing things like reddit, twitter, facbook and other forums using AI is likely going to be very effective if it isn't already.
- FeatureRush 10y agohttps://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/ Can't wait!
- FeatureRush 10y agoIt may seem as a joke, but I really think that manipulating pseudo-anonymous Internet forums like reddit for political and marketing reasons will prove to be huge driving force for bot development in the coming decade. Right now it's super cheap to just hire some students or task interns with the posting, but remember bots don't leak, don't quit the job and while they do not understand reality you just can't teach human to consider 5000 data points for every comment! And the story about vote manipulation, as shady as it is, still proves that machine that does not understand emotions still uses them in a way that trained humans just couldn't.
- dredmorbius 10y agoI've decided that the outcome of that may not be quite so benign as we'd initially hoped.
- dredmorbius 10y ago"Reddit is Being Manipulated By Big Financial Services Companies" https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5vxxyh/reddit_is_being_regularly_manipulated_by_large/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5vxxyh/reddit_i... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-is-being-manipulated-by-big-financial-services-companies/#4739b1054c92 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2017/02/20/reddit-i...
- pessimizer 10y agoAI doesn't exist. Actual people do, and they're cheap to hire.