so :yea:
Bright side of all this; at some point soon a fed and ai will have a very long and hilarious chat where they both try to incite the other to violence.
Finally I'll have the AI run my account and I'll be able to log off and roam the outdoors
touching grass is only allowable on the condition that the posts may never dry up
Yeah all this negativity we can finally all just automate our shit posting and pursue higher value activities
It’d be nice if you could automate menial labor so that we could all just exist, but no signs of that in the near future :agony-shivering:
i'm here because i don't have any higher value activities :agony-yehaw:
:neera: well this forum is already full of russian bots so no wonder you cant tell the difference
TBF, the comment is weird so while I would not have guessed "AI generated", I likely would have written it off as kinda strange and just assumed they were a weird person.
High, deep in the anime-catgirl-copypasta zones, or both.
usually both.
yeah for reference this was my like 5th try generating the post, I barely tried
As someone who is ND, I’m often referred to as “weird”
Ya just never know when you’re on hexbear!
I agree it could be noticed easily if you knew what to look for, but if you weren't paying attention you probably wouldn't
I've wondered for a long time what portion of internet discussions come from "normal" individual users
I mean, it was nearly trivial for interested parties to astroturf small communities before machine learning even got involved. Marketing companies even sold that kind of service openly. Scripts can be run to swap out synonyms for evading spam detection, as well as to crawl the page for keywords to auto-reply to
From the other end, we're all accustomed to seeing weird shit online. Mostly when something doesn't make sense, we move on - maybe they misspoke, maybe they replied to the wrong comment, maybe a typo, who cares?
Companies routinely astroturf hobbyist forums manually to sell widgets, but if you suggest that the world's intelligence agencies wouldn't have ignored that kind of tool for all these years then you're fringe
I don't know. My guess is that it's not as well suited to educating people as it is to interfering with them.
It seems particularly suited to influencing what people think others believe, so it could be excellent at radicalizing people. Unfortunately I don't think it would help as much with building a coherent worldview that could be directed toward a bigger project
Maybe. I hope any tool can be used to help revolution, but I'm having trouble imagining leftist use cases outside of heightening enthusiasm for unions and other orgs
The trouble as I see it is that it's easy to sockpuppet some model plane enthusiasts to plug your brand, or some trans people to make a soft common enemy for your target audience. It's harder to do that to the bourgeoisie because they're public and powerful, and the fascists could hardly be made to look any worse than they openly profess to be. Meanwhile any subgroup of the left is as easy to believably impersonate as anyone else, except that those efforts only really need to reaffirm our rich imperial tradition of ahistorically smearing leftism
I really think there's a lot of potential in these things for building agitating bots.
Its great at helping fill in rhetorical gaps,you give it a direction and it builds you a first draft and you just fix its fuck ups, I'm gonna use this for sure
AI isn't going to take people's jobs, people who know how to use AI are. Like with factory workers and robots, there still has to be someone to run it and fix it.
But it takes 1 person to fix the robot that does the work of 20 people. And similarly it takes 1 person to use AI to do the work of multiple people.
"Oh please, spare me the doom and gloom" doesn't sound like Hexbear though.
Im sorry you had to be the one, but it was going to be someone
eh, life is complicated right now, but I'm doing alright :comfy:
