Comment on ‘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.

TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly the “don’t trust anyone on the internet” mindset changed. The same boomers who were cautioning us against playing online games with friends are now the same ones sharing blatantly AI generated slop from strangers on Facebook as if it were gospel.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Back then it was just old people trying to groom 16 year olds. Now it’s a nation’s intelligence apparatus turning our citizens against each other and convincing them to destroy our country.

    I wholeheartedly believe they’re here, too. Their primary function here is to discourage the left from voting, primarily by focusing on the (very real) failures of the Democrats while the other party is extremely literally the Nazi party.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia.

      Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot

        I mean that’s unironically the problem. When there absolutely are bots out here, how do you tell?

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      • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        … and a .ml user pops out from the woodwork

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      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

        Where did they say that? They just said bots in general. It’s well known that Russia has been running a propaganda campaign across social media platforms since at least the 2016 elections (just like the US is doing on Russian and Chinese social media, I’m sure. They do it on Americans as well. We’re probably the most propangandized country on the planet), but there’s plenty of incentive for corpo bots to be running their own campaigns as well.

        Or are you projecting for some reason? What do you get from defending Putin?

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      • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Tankie begone

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Social media broke so many people’s brains

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Social media didn’t break people’s brains, the massive influx of conservative corporate money to distort society and keep existential problems from being fixed until it is too late and push people resort to to impulsive, kneejerk responses because they have been ground down to crumbs… broke people’s brains.

      If we didn’t have social media right now and all of this was happening, it would be SO much worse without younger people being able to find news about the Palestinian Genocide or other world news that their country/the rich conservatives around them don’t want them to read.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like I learned more about the Internet and shit from Gen X people than from boomers. Though, nearly everyone on my dad’s side of the family, including my dad (a boomer), was tech literate, having worked in tech (my dad is a software engineer) and still continue to not be dumb about tech… Aside from thinking e-greeting cards are rad.

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      e-greeting cards

      Haven’t even thought about them in what seems like a quarter of a century.

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      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Aside from thinking e-greeting cards are rad.

      As a late Gen-X/early Millennial, e-greeting cards are rad.

      Kids these days don’t know how good they have it with their gif memes and emoji-supporting character encodings… get off my lawn you young whippersnappers!

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t believe you.

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  • TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As you shouldn’t.

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• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I never liked the “don’t believe anything you read on the internet” line, it focuses too much on the internet without considering that you shouldn’t believe anything you read or hear elsewhere either, especially on divisive topics like politics.

  You should evaluate information you receive from any source with critical thinking, consider how easy it is to make false claims (e.g. probably much harder for a single source if someone claims that the US president has been assassinated than if someone claims their local bus was late that one unspecified day at their unspecified location), who benefits from convincing you of the truth of a statement, is the statement consistent with other things you know about the world,…

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nice try, AI

    😄

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