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by zingababba
311 days ago
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It's pretty bad. I've also been very interested in the non-organic way certain topics get introduced. It's often chains of non-organic posts/replies that will seed topics in a way that makes it seem like opinion 1 is proposed then someone else will come in and make some obvious fallacy in a counter-argument, then another post will respond calling them out in some inflammatory way. This kicks off a cycle of user engagement either defending or attacking one of the participants. However the entire initial chain of 3-4 back and forth is all bots just subtly guiding topics. |
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From a behavioural POV it seems like an obvious play. These companies and there owners have huge gains via social engineering.
There is very little transparency, accountability or regulation.
The thing that worries me is the unobvious… most people know about instagram and ++ suicide rates. What shocked me was finding out that instagram used things like waiting for people to remove photos of themselves, identify insecurity behaviour, use that to position beauty products to young girls. It seems so so unethical and predatory. Not to mention the impact on public MH when applied at scale.
Another crazy stat was something like screen time av was 4hrs/ day and av attention spans dropped from ~180s to something like ~90s.
The impact in so many areas is so bad. Blows my mind there is such a lack of regulation.
Thinking AI has the potential, at scale to social engineer without the need to bother creating content / making bots.