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Bots are not "pretending" to be anything. Humans have a false assumption that everything posted on social media was hand typed by another human, at the time it
by vinniejames 7y ago
Bots are not "pretending" to be anything. Humans have a false assumption that everything posted on social media was hand typed by another human, at the time it was posted. This is not, and almost never had been true, therein lies the problem. There have been "bots" posting online since day 1
- TheAdamAndChe 7y ago"social media" has "social" in its name, which implies the presence of people. Hanging out with a bunch of computers is not social.
- wpietri 7y agoTechnically, the humans running the accounts are pretending to be a lot of different people. But since the HN audience is aware nobody has achieved artificial consciousness, we casually attribute characteristics to the puppets, not the puppeteers.
- mytherin 7y agoWhen bots have human names and human profile pictures they are most certainly pretending to be human. But even if they do not have these, by not explicitly mentioning they are bots on social networking sites (including sites like reddit) they are effectively pretending to be humans as well, because like you mentioned people assume that other users on the site are human.
- vinniejames 7y agoIt's a false assumption. People shouldn't assume anything, there are plenty of places to do legitimate research, political or otherwise, social media isn't one of them