Comment on Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Russian bots do a lot more then just claim “russia good U.S bad”. They primarily echo the most extreme positions on both sides of any argument aka they also say “U.S good Russia bad” with the express goal of antagonising and polarising discussions.
They aren’t trying to brainwash you so much as make you angry and disengaged, their success in America for example wasn’t just in supporting right wing nutters (although they definitely invested more energy into bolster the political rights views) theu also posed as left wing nutters. Successfully shifting dialogue away from calmer more logical discussion and into the realm of extreme emotion.
I light of this, adding more bots that are obviously anti murica and sound Russia would just be doing what russia is already doing. You would be doing half their job for them.
shiftymccool@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Maybe I’m just dense but this feels a lot like the right wing’s contradiction of the immigrant that is lazy but also taking all the jobs.
If the goal of the Russian bot is to polarize discussion, how is “both sides are the same” also the goal?
TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
“Both sides are the same” Is an argument that frequently pops up whenever corruption and corporate ownership is brought up in regards to the Republican party, The idea being that the democrats are Also corrupt and corporate owned there for who you vote for doesn’t matter therefore your vote doesn’t matter. Aka political disengagement.
Not sure what you meant by the first part? Can you please show me where you see the correlation?