Like the 90s/2000s - don’t put personal information on the internet, don’t believe a damned thing on it either.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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I’m sure there are individuals doing worse one off shit, or people targeting individuals.
I’m sure Facebook has run multiple algorithm experiments that are worse.
I’m sure YouTube has caused worse real world outcomes with the rabbit holes their algorithm use to promote. (And they have never found a way to completely fix the rabbit hole problems without destroying the usefulness of the algorithm completely.)
The actions described in this article are upsetting and disappointing, but this has been going on for a long time. All in the name of making money.
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If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it's r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinions and even now people are questioning Am I Overreacting and AITAH a lot. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent. I'm not surprised to see it was part of a fucking experiment.
AI posts or just creative writing assignments.
Right. Subs like these are great fodder for people who just like to make shit up.
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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.
Russia has been using LLM based social media bots for quite a while now
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4chan is surely filled with glowie experiments like this.
I'm conflicted by that term. Is it ok that it's been shortened to "glow"?
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I'm sorry but as a language model trained by OpenAI, I feel very relevant to interact - on Lemmy - with other very real human beings
I've worked in quite a few DARPA projects and I can almost 100% guarantee you are correct.
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Field experiment.