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Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users (www.404media.co)

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The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The issue is, with AI you can have an agent personalized for every person, pretending to be their friend, manipulating them individually, to move society in a way that's negative for 99.999% of people.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

Maybe the real friends were the AI bots we made along the way.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

I think that’s hyperbolic (at least at today’s “AI” capabilities) all of the posts and comment in this ”research” were reviewed and posted by a human researcher.

Even if the technology improves to the point where that is no longer necessary. Even the billionaires are finding out you only need a few bad eggs to spoil the basket

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really? I can make an agent that can convince me it's my friend?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago

You can have an agent that simultaneously has "personal" conversations with a ton of people.