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Automated radicalization of Twitter, or Reddit, or HN, or Wikipedia. The sophisticated bad actor won’t generate straight-up hate speech that will just get filt
by jl6 4y ago
Automated radicalization of Twitter, or Reddit, or HN, or Wikipedia.
The sophisticated bad actor won’t generate straight-up hate speech that will just get filtered/blocked. They will be master of ten thousand bot accounts that work slowly to build up a plausibly innocuous posting history (including holding realistic conversations either between themselves or with real users), then start subtly manipulating conversations towards a predetermined political end.
Basically everything that political troll farms and media do already, but automated on a massive scale.
Where’s the automated defence against this?
- thatguy0900 4y agoI think the defence against this is invite only forums or just closed forums where everyone knows each other. I cant see large open forums surviving, between automated human like advertising and political account farms people with real opinions will be in the extreme minority.
- stackedinserter 4y agoIt's already happening and doesn't hurt anyone. Look at r/politics: it's full of hate, comments section looks like it's written by GPT-0.5beta, and yes, they try to steer discussion towards a predetermined political end. Do you need the automated defense against it?