The Department of Defense wants technology so it can fabricate online personas that are indistinguishable from real people.

  • redladadriver [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    This is already widespread, just in private hands. The youtube comments are like 60% bots, especially on political content. “Randomnames1914: I’m a (random age) (random ethnicity and gender) and I will be voting for Candidate Y!” The sock puppet use and AI content makes the internet truly garbage now. It’ll soon be FBI ad State Department entrapment bots talking to Marketing bots on an AI generated video or article…

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    1 month ago

    Hey {insert name} I hope this comment finds you well.

    Wow, fascinating, so anyone doing a terrorism right now? Where about are you from?

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    Join the club, that’s about all the internet is anymore anyways. If they really wanted to do something groundbreaking they’d find a way to keep AI off the internet in the first place.