From WIRED: MassiveBlue is a company that creates online AI bots to infiltrate student protest movements, among other...
From WIRED: MassiveBlue is a company that creates online AI bots to infiltrate student protest movements, among other things."
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"This is plain, old-fashioned, bad. It hasn’t led to an arrest yet. And my guess is it won’t work out, or it will just end up entrapping other bots created by students. I’d be curious to see how judges react to undercover-bot-generated evidence trails."
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"We’re going to see so much “virtual influencer” AI-generated stuff that I wonder if we end up with some sort of publicly signed key to prove you’re a real human. Otherwise we won’t be able to interact with strangers online any more (like I am doing now)."
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"It’s safe and fair to assume, for example, that all or nearly all of the cold inbound coming to me at work is bot-generated and sent out via automation platform. I used to read some inbound pitches and now I just spam filter and block everyone who doesn’t have a direct connection to me."
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"But if you can’t trust strangers online (like, can’t trust that they’re human) that will actually will blow up a lot of industries that right now see AI as growth. Like social media, or advertising and marketing. Anything with a funnel."
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"Ironically the big platform companies have the best ability to deliver here—Google can look at usage patterns over time, Amazon knows you spend real money, and so forth. Your banks also know you’re human, even if they like to pretend otherwise. They could all verify that you’re real. Or LinkedIn."
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