‘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.
There's no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine. I'll bet this experiment has been conducted a dozen times or more but without the reveal at the end.
Now look here! I was invited to speak with the very real, very human patrons of this fine establishment, and I’ll not have you undermining my efforts to fulfill that obligation!
You know I never said that, only that they never mention or can admit that.
The american bots or online operatives always need to start crying about Russian or Chinese interference on any unrelated subject?
Like this Shakleford here, who admits he's worked for the fascist imperialist warcriminal state.
I've seen plenty of US bootlicker bots/operatives and hasbara genocider scum. I can smell them from far.
Not so much Chinese or Russians.
Well my friend, if you can't smell the shit you should probably move away from the farm. Russian and Chinese has a certain scent to it. The same with American. Sounds like you're just nose blind.
I know anything said online that goes against the western narrative immediately gets slandered: 'Russian bots', '100+ social credit' and that lame BS.
Paranoid delusional Pavlovian reflexes induced by western propaganda.
Incapable of fathoming people have another opinion, they must be paid!
If that's the mindset hen you will see indeed a lot of those.
The most obvious ones to spot are definitely the Hasbara types, same pattern and vocab, and really bad at what they do.
However, there are for a fact government assets promoting those opinions and herding those clueless people. What a lot of people failed to realize is that this isn't a 2v1 or even a 3v1 fight. This is an international free-for-all with upwards of 45 different countries getting in on the melee.
Yeah so I'm beginning to regret engaging with you the conversation that we started was that many countries have vested interest and manipulation of social media. However, all you want to do is talk about how America is big, bad and evil. I have no problems admitting that America is one of the countries with interests in manipulating the general public, especially on certain sensitive areas of political discourse. That has been an active playbook since the 1900s. I would advise you to open up any historical documentation on world war I or world war II. Creative lying is not a new invention. It has been utilized by every country for time. Immemorial. Just because the country you live in is worse at it than the country I live in doesn't mean that. Both of our countries aren't doing it.
And I admitted evryone does it, obviously.
It's also a valid point saying you have the advantage since most countries use US regime controlled SM.
Do you even know what country I'm from?
There's no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a baked-in feature of meatspace either. I'm a fan of solipsism and Last Thursdayism personally. Also propaganda posters.
The CMV sub reeked of bot/troll/farmer activity, much like the amitheasshole threads. I guess it can be tough to recognize if you weren't there to see the transition from authentic posting to justice/rage bait.
We're still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we're climbing out of it. I'm already being 'tricked' left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen. What happens when robots pass the imitation game?
I think the reddit user base is shifting too. It's less "just the nerds" than it used to be. The same thing happened to Facebook. It fundamentally changed when everyone's mom joined..
Conflict? A good image is a good image regardless of its provenance. And yes 2020s era 4chan was pretty much glowboy central, one look at the top posts by country of origin said as much. It arguably wasn't worth bothering with since 2015