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That’s the problem though. You can increase the clout of your claim online with fake exposition. People do it all the time. Reddit is full of fake human created
by hombre_fatal 2y ago
That’s the problem though. You can increase the clout of your claim online with fake exposition. People do it all the time. Reddit is full of fake human created stories and comments. I did it myself when I was in my twenties for fun.
If interacting with bogus story telling is a problem, why does nobody care until it’s generated by a machine?
I think it turns out that people don’t care that much that stories are fake because either real or not, it gave them the stimulus to express themselves in response.
It could actually be a moral favor you’re doing people on social media to generate more anchor points for which they can reply to.
- Spivak 2y agoProbably a combination of scale and ease. The people on the internet who try this gambit have to actually write each of their posts to their target audience which acts as a time/money barrier which is now gone. But the bigger one is that inventing these identities convincingly is hard. There's a million little shibboleths, expressions, in-group references that you have to know to not out yourself and if you get right imperceptibly make your argument much stronger. To pick an example that is to me both funny and malicious, the right wing middle aged white suburban men who sometimes get caught pretending to be gay black disabled veterans in internet political arguments have a very real lived experience gap that they have to navigate. But AI is scary good at that kind of fuzzy messy logic and can bridge that gap.