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That’s just insipid what’s purism on your part. None of these are as bad as something whose only purpose is to spew out hate.


Facebook purposefully manipulated the emotional states of thousands of users.

This guy made a bot to shitpost on /pol/ without getting noticed. As far as I see, the worst thing he did was subject the people browsing /pol/ to more of the same bullshit they spew there daily. Good play on his part though, making the direct victims of his AI fuckery the most unsympathetic people you can find online.


They are worse. They have vastly greater on-the-ground negative impacts on real live people.

Hurting people does not become OK because you do it decorously.


Facebook literally did the same experiment but with 600k people.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...




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