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Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users (www.404media.co)

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The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Absolutely, certain communities in all of the most popular instances seem to almost exclusively host bot interactions. Some other very popular communities have a more even distribution of humans to bots.