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These articles are as misinformation themselves as the tweets they're talking about
by Drybones 6y ago
These articles are as misinformation themselves as the tweets they're talking about
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoFound the bot... Kidding, but there's a real point. 40% of tweets are from bots? OK, how many "studies" are from bots? (I believe that's in the neighborhood of Drybones' point.) But how many comments responding to the studies are from bots? Way back in the day, I remember reading the Cluetrain Manifesto. It said that corporate-speak sounded literally inhuman. Well, the bots have gotten better over the years. But also, it seems to me that the humans have gotten worse. They are less able to say "Wait, that doesn't make sense." They are even less able to say "Wait, that doesn't sound like the way humans talk." And that's bad. As the bots get better, the humans need to be developing better filters, not regressing.
- dorkwood 6y agoI think there's a sci-fi story buried in here. In the future, when humans die out, online conversation somehow continues at the usual pace.