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- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 8 hours ago:
I’m sure some of it is organic but there have been times when I see a post and read the comments and they are all talking in a way that pushes a similar opinion. Then I see the same post reposted and notice the same accounts using the similar comments if not the exactly same. Often times being overly prepared with links and info dumping like a lot of effort was made to support their opinion. It is very sus.
We may not be able to verify when it is happening but we absolutely do know there are organized efforts to shape public opinion by using multiple accounts to push talking points. And this is done by many different types of organizations, from countries like China and Russia, but also by companies like Monsanto or the fossil fuel industry. It has been happening rampantly for years.
- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 10 hours ago:
It is tough to say. But there are red flags. Like when an opinion on a post is repeated a lot by different accounts in the thread but are heavily downvoted and an opposing opinion is heavily upvoted.
This is what I would expect to see if bots brigading a thread are using unpopular talking points.
For example, I see it a lot with anti DNC threads with the same accounts posting similar comments throughout multiple reposts of a single post. If I had to assume what views they are trying to promote, I would say they seem to be trying to discourage democrats to vote by sowing apathy aka FUD.
- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 11 hours ago:
It just has to be proportional. Reports on these bot farms have shown that they absolutely go into small niche areas to influence people. Facebook groups being one of the most notable that comes to mind.
- Comment on OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users 14 hours ago:
So if a bunch of accounts on lemmy repeat an opinion that isn’t popular with people I meet IRL then that could be an attempt to change public opinion using bots on lemmy?
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 months ago:
We aren’t consuming batteries anywhere near the rate we consume oil and coal. Hydrogen even less than batteries.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 4 months ago:
During the pandemic they had to choose between go remote or close up shop. They didn’t have much choice.
Seems that once Covid stabilized they’ve been trying to force everyone back.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 5 months ago:
That’s nice but it doesn’t change the facts:
The software that you are stating “gets bloated” is in all vehicles, not just EVs.
Combistion vehicles have more inputs and outputs to incorporate in the bloated software than EVs.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 5 months ago:
Right, the centralized control systems that get bloated with software are not unique to EVs. Like I said. And those centralized control systems have more inputs and outputs to interact with on an ICE than on an EV because an ICE has more components.
I’m not a hobbyist. I was a master automotive mechanic for over 20 years and I am now a software developer. I feel the need to say this because you are restating the same points I already address in a more verbose way as if you are hoping to make it sound too complicated for the average person to refute.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 5 months ago:
Right but both EVs and ICE vehicles have infotainment systems. ICE vehicles have more components that require software in addition to that.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 5 months ago:
ICE vehicles have more software because they have more components. They have a transmission control module and an engine control module both of which have a lot of sensors to read and outputs to control. Much more than a simple EV would have.