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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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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it’s not unique to AI training. Fake profiles/catfishing have been around since the dawn of the internet.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Long before that. Lonely Hearts columns, classified ads, etc. had lots of fake people in there too.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah. There is even a song about it. Unfortunately I can’t remember the name, band, or lyrics.