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I imagine the problem isn’t so much volume of crap comments as much as the tailoring of crap comments. Imagine if every tweet-into-the-void from a human with 50
by goodside 6y ago
I imagine the problem isn’t so much volume of crap comments as much as the tailoring of crap comments. Imagine if every tweet-into-the-void from a human with 50 followers reliably got engaging replies. Bots taunting your grammar mistakes, bots selectively quoting your prior tweets to point out contradictions, bots cleverly insinuating that your tweets reveal problematic sympathies.
So much of our noise-filtering is ignoring comments that are too generic to be human. What happens when every spam comment seems to understand the OP, even when the OP’s true audience is negligible?
- runawaybottle 6y agoIf a person has any paranoid tendencies, this would be a psychological onslaught. Interrogators use the tactics you just described to siege a person to psychological exhaustion. Product Devs for the CCP will have a lot to work with if this ever evolves.
- yetihehe 6y ago> What happens when every spam comment seems to understand the OP, even when the OP’s true audience is negligible? My hope is the next step will be filtering by insightfulness/usability of a comment and then those best bots bought and used by next stack overflow: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
- lopmotr 6y agoWould you be fooled by that? No because once it became well known, people would adjust their heuristics for judging who's real. If that's too hard, platforms would help, such as by verifying identity more thoroughly. I've never heard any realistic description of how AI bots could somehow undermine society even close to the amount that humans already do.