• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a bot

    Also you’re blaming the medium, rather than the malicious actors.

    If AI text generative technology was around a century earlier you’d have people being penpals or print newspaper write-ins with a bot instead. Communicating through text is inherently risky, so best to blame the people who abuse that fact instead.

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      you’re blaming the medium

      I don’t think that’s implied in the post. Also reddit inc is complicit in the bot farming since it boosts their engagement metrics.

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      The medium structures and drives the interactions. Decisions about the medium are amplified in effect. (Some) people have always been bad, but what they do and what effect it has varies with the medium.