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Bots are software tools used by humans to publish, just like web browsers. Nothing on the internet happens without human intent.

• bregma 2y ago
  This is exactly it. AI bots have no volition. The internet will be endeadened by people training bots on fake data posted by people running bots. Bots don't kill internets, people do.
• jddj 2y ago
  The conversation is fundamentally about humans and technology. The equation is roughly result = some human's intent * available technology If some human (or organisation)'s intent is to deceive the elderly at scale and their reach is that much greater now due to new technology, what part of the conversation stops due to there being a human in the loop?
• oriolid 2y ago
  > Nothing on the internet happens without human intent. I have written many pieces of software that did something I didn't intend. I have the feeling it's the same for everyone who's written anything more complex than hello world.
• brabel 2y ago
  As the article points out, the problem is when Governments start using them as basically weapons.... and companies use them all the time for marketing... Yes, there's a group of people behind those, but it's hard to ignore the difference between a single person controlling a couple of bots to post harmless updates or whatever, and Governments trying to sway the agenda of other countries their way.