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Have you been reading the mass comments/tweets on political stories lately? Some of it does seem bot-like to me. I don’t have a strong opinion about how much th
by djannzjkzxn 6y ago
Have you been reading the mass comments/tweets on political stories lately? Some of it does seem bot-like to me. I don’t have a strong opinion about how much this is happening. But I know I could personally run a bot that generates political spam with GPT-2. I know a lot of people want to influence the political conversation. I mean, people get paid salaries to write comments online. So I can’t help but suspect that someone is using tools that allow it to be done a lot more cheaply.
- seanwilson 6y agoSaying that it could be is wide use but you wouldn't be able to detect it is an impossible to falsify claim though.
- djannzjkzxn 6y agoThe way to falsify it is to track down the identity of the human author of every internet comment. Simple! To get philosophical I won’t say that I “know” it’s happening. Most of the world consists of things I don’t know about. The best I can do is build a mental model based on what I do know.