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Reddit's licensing deal means Google's AI can soon be trained on the best humanity has to offer — completely unhinged posts (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Everyone is joking, but an ai specifically made to manipulate public discourse on social media is basically inevitable and will either kill the internet as a source of human interaction or effectively warp the majority of public opinion to whatever the ruling class wants. Even more than it does now.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Think of the range of uses that’ll get totally whitewashed and normalized

  • “We’ve added AI ‘chat seeders’ to help get posts initial traction with comments and voting”
  • “Certain issues and topics attract controversy, so we’re unveiling new tools for moderators to help ‘guide’ the conversation towards positive dialogue”
  • “To fight brigading, we’ve empowered our AI moderator to automatically shadow ban certain comments that violate our ToS & ToU.”
  • “With the newly added ‘Debate and Discussion’ feature, all users will see more high quality and well researched posts (powered by OpenAI)”
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