• Franklin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Not surprising they’ve been social marketing with corporate accounts and purchased accounts for years because the know it’s effective.

    This is just the natural evolution of that.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah this is one instance where I don’t care that the human bots are being replaced with AI bots. I mean, it’s even worse than before, but those “workers” don’t have my support here.

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        8 months ago

        Astroturfers losing their jobs to AI. I imagine some poor guy coming home after a long day of warmongering and promoting nuclear energy, hanging up his coat: „honey, I’m home“. And the wife has prepared a beautiful dinner, it could be a wonderful day. „How was work today?“, the wife asks. And the guy has to tell her how he lost his job to the evil twin brother of ChatGPT because corporate has done the math and they realized that a bot can replace possibly hundreds of humans. It’s a tragedy really, how is the guy going to pay for his mortgage? How’s he gonna feed his family? I think astroturfers should unionize to combat this kind of automation. It creates harm to society.

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          8 months ago

          There’s a Kurt Vonnegut story in there somewhere. Or maybe someone more cynical.

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            I‘m from Germany so had no idea about Kurt Vonnegut, just read through his biography and work and I think that’s the kind of story I had in mind. Definitely gonna read some of his work, seems highly relevant still nowadays.

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              8 months ago

              He’s so good. Slaughterhouse 5 is the real classic he’s known for.