• chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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    6 days ago

    They will probably aim for that, but actually doing so will produce hilarious results. Imagine what would happen to someone who is into BDSM or some other spicy topic. Then meta would generate them a bunch of BDSM buddies that post all sorts of wild stuff all the time.

    My argument is that as Meta matures, it becomes increasingly risk averse, just like large companies tend to. They might still try what you suggested, but after a few PR disasters they’ll tone it down a bit. Maybe after a few iterations, the bots will produce hilarious results as rarely as possible while still being just barely interesting. In other words: harmless and inoffensive.

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      6 days ago

      I think they might just let the disasters happen. The end picture looks less like a social network and more like billions of individual humans floating in their own personal fantasy worlds populated almost entirely with AI friends.