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‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

This, of course, doesn’t discount the fact that AI models are often much cheaper to run than the salaries of human beings.

And the fact that you can generate hundreds or thousands of them at the drop of a hat to bury any social media topic in highly convincing 'people' so that the average reader is more than likely going to read the opinion that you're pushing and not the opinion of the human beings.