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> Why would anyone choose to spend their time interacting with fake people, pushing a corporate party line to sell you something? Really, functionally, what is
by RiverCrochet 2y ago
> Why would anyone choose to spend their time interacting with fake people, pushing a corporate party line to sell you something?
Really, functionally, what is the difference between any of the following other than in degree:
- Account that is nothing but AI generated content.
- Bot controlled accounts that spam messages at opportune times or can react to keywords detected in comments
- Account that belongs to an influencer and only consists of and posts influencer content.
- Account that is nothing but trolling/boosting with political memes.
- Account that belongs to a company and only posts memes and other advertisement type posts.
- Any account with activity trying to get likes, karma, etc. to gain privileges on the app or simply increase a displayed score.
All of the above are varying degrees of fake/non-authentic, and the non AI ones have been around a long, long time. These are everywhere and create engagement on multiple platforms despite people knowing about them and complaining about them. So I can understand why someone may think an AI model can possibly capture that essence and increase/lock-in engagement further. I'm pessimistic enough to think it will work if done the right way.
- jerf 2y agoI was still grasping at how to phrase it, but that is definitely the sort of thing I was trying to get at, not that this is some massive change of the rules of engagement (war analogy at this point selected quite deliberately), but instead, an awful lot of money poured into plowing a field that is probably already overplowed. And doing it openly is even weirder.