I’d suggest they know growth of the platforms is waning, if not going backwards, but if they create a heap of bots and call them “active users” then the share price won’t go down. That’s the only reason I can think of.
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Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And I still don’t understand why they’re doing it. They can’t possibly think this will be good long-term, can they?
And what’s with the article ending on a note of trying to make it sound bad that reviving nuclear power is a negative thing? If that’s the result of AI slop, then I’d call it a net positive.
dellish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was my first thought too. It seems like that would be an easy way to get sued by advertisers though. You can’t sell stuff to bots.
Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If I had to make business sense of this, it might be a pilot for eventual functions like a “sentiment injection” tool to really sway public opinion. With enough halfway believable accounts, not only does the site look more active, but companies/advertisers could pay Facebook to have the bots shovel opinions and products to users in a more overwhelming and coordinated approach than is currently possible with external bots.
sirboozebum@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dead internet theory is becoming true.
Bots talking to bots will be 90% of the internet.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A new odd language will develop that us meatbags won’t understand.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
On god no cap frfr
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In around 2005 or so I went back to look at a Usenet newsgroup which had been a major part of my online life in the 1990s. All the people had gone, but the spambots were still there and the entire group was just bot spam posted at nobody and read by no one. The bots were even replying to one another’s threads. A forum where multiple IRL human friendships had been forged over the years was nothing more than grifting robots spamming at each other.
It’s fully 20 years later and the same shit is going down with a new coat of paint.