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Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI
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Chemotherapy is bad. A patient is dying from cancer. Patient receives chemotherapy and lives.
Chemotherapy is bad, more chemotherapy is good? What?
More chemo is not necessarily good. Chemo is like poison and you hope it kills more cancer than normal cells, that is not always the case. Not a great example for your argument.
That is the whole point lol
Chemotherapy is not bad. It cures people. Try again.
It is bad. Something can be bad and cure people. You see, you are just committing logical fallacies.
Chemotherapy IS poison. It is cytotoxic. The goal is to kill the cancer before it kills the patient, but it is toxic.
A similar argument can be made for the use of bots, as was my showerthought.
Chemotherapy is bad for the person receiving chemo, it's just even worse for the cancer. Yes, it cures people, but nobody in their right mind would use chemo on a healty person and claim that it wasn't bad for that person.
If you have ever seen someone going through chemo, it's really rough on them, and it's only done in the hope of getting rid of the cancer and being able to stop using chemo.
But the analogy doesn't make sense for the discussion on hand, because what propaganda bots do is polarizing, creating distrust, dividing society and cause people to do stupid things due to being angry.
Propaganda bots do that by posting extreme statements on all sides of the political spectrum. They post both pro-russia and anti-russia stuff, pro-capitalism and anti-capitalism, pro-trans and anti-trans, and so on.
So making bots to post anti-russia stuff is doing half their work.
An anti-russia bot would not be chemotherapy, it would be injecting cancer cells into the patient.
Maybe one could make a bot that posts moderate views and content advocating for reconcilliation or something like that.