‘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.

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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. - SLRPNK

Lemmy

Reddit: Ban the Russian/Chinese/Israeli/American bots? Nope. Ban the Swiss researchers that are trying to study useful things? Yep
Bots attempting to manipulate humans by impersonating trauma counselors or rape survivors isn’t useful. It’s dangerous.
Sure, but still less dangerous of bots undermining our democracies and trying to destroy our social frabic.

Humans pretend to be experts infront of eachother and constantly lie on the internet every day.

Say what you want about 4chan but the disclaimer it had ontop of its page should be common sense to everyone on social media.

that doesn’t mean we should exacerbate the issue with AI.

If fake experts on the internet get their jobs taken by the ai, it would be tragic indeed.

Don’t worry tho, popular sites on the internet are dead since they’re all bots anyway. It’s over.

If fake experts on the internet get their jobs taken by the ai, it would be tragic indeed.

These two groups are not mutually exclusive

Welcome to the internet? Learn skepticism?