• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    There’s no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine. I’ll bet this experiment has been conducted a dozen times or more but without the reveal at the end.

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          8 months ago

          If you think that, the US is the only country that does this. I have many, many waterfront properties in the Sahara desert to sell you

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            8 months ago

            You know I never said that, only that they never mention or can admit that.
            The american bots or online operatives always need to start crying about Russian or Chinese interference on any unrelated subject?
            Like this Shakleford here, who admits he’s worked for the fascist imperialist warcriminal state.
            I’ve seen plenty of US bootlicker bots/operatives and hasbara genocider scum. I can smell them from far.
            Not so much Chinese or Russians.

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              8 months ago

              Well my friend, if you can’t smell the shit you should probably move away from the farm. Russian and Chinese has a certain scent to it. The same with American. Sounds like you’re just nose blind.

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                8 months ago

                I know anything said online that goes against the western narrative immediately gets slandered: ‘Russian bots’, ‘100+ social credit’ and that lame BS.
                Paranoid delusional Pavlovian reflexes induced by western propaganda.
                Incapable of fathoming people have another opinion, they must be paid!
                If that’s the mindset hen you will see indeed a lot of those.
                The most obvious ones to spot are definitely the Hasbara types, same pattern and vocab, and really bad at what they do.

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                  8 months ago

                  I mean that’s just like your opinion man.

                  However, there are for a fact government assets promoting those opinions and herding those clueless people. What a lot of people failed to realize is that this isn’t a 2v1 or even a 3v1 fight. This is an international free-for-all with upwards of 45 different countries getting in on the melee.

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    8 months ago

    Like the 90s/2000s - don’t put personal information on the internet, don’t believe a damned thing on it either.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly the “don’t trust anyone on the internet” mindset changed. The same boomers who were cautioning us against playing online games with friends are now the same ones sharing blatantly AI generated slop from strangers on Facebook as if it were gospel.

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        8 months ago

        Back then it was just old people trying to groom 16 year olds. Now it’s a nation’s intelligence apparatus turning our citizens against each other and convincing them to destroy our country.

        I wholeheartedly believe they’re here, too. Their primary function here is to discourage the left from voting, primarily by focusing on the (very real) failures of the Democrats while the other party is extremely literally the Nazi party.

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          8 months ago

          Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

          Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

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            8 months ago

            Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot

            I mean that’s unironically the problem. When there absolutely are bots out here, how do you tell?

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              8 months ago

              Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

              There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

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            Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

            Where did they say that? They just said bots in general. It’s well known that Russia has been running a propaganda campaign across social media platforms since at least the 2016 elections (just like the US is doing on Russian and Chinese social media, I’m sure. They do it on Americans as well. We’re probably the most propangandized country on the planet), but there’s plenty of incentive for corpo bots to be running their own campaigns as well.

            Or are you projecting for some reason? What do you get from defending Putin?

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      8 months ago

      You think it’s anti science to want complete disclosure when you as a person are being experimented on?

      What kind of backwards thinking is that?

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        Not when disclosure ruins the experiment. Nobody was harmed or even could be harmed unless they are dead stupid, in which case the harm is already inevitable. This was posting on social media, not injecting people with random pathogens. Have a little perspective.

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          8 months ago

          You do realize the ends do not justify the means?

          You do realize that MANY people on social media have emotional and mental situations occuring and that these experiments can have ramifications that cannot be traced?

          This is just a small reason why this is so damn unethical

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            8 months ago

            In that case, any interaction would be unethical. How do you know that I don’t have an intense fear of the words “justify the means”? You could have just doomed me to a downward spiral ending in my demise. As if I didn’t have enough trouble. You not only made me see it, you tricked me into typing it.

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              8 months ago

              you are being beyond silly.

              in no way is what you just posited true . unsuspecting nd non malicious social faux pas are in no way equal to Intentionally secretive manipulation used to garner data from unsuspecting people

              that was an embarrassingly bad attempt to defend an indefensible position, and one no-one would blame you for deleting and re-trying

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                8 months ago

                Well, you are trying embarrassingly hard to silence me at least. That is fine. I was definitely positing an unlikely but possible case, I do suffer from extreme anxiety and what sets it off has nothing to do with logic, but you are also overstating the ethics violation by suggesting that any harm they could cause is real or significant in a way that wouldn’t happen with regular interaction on random forums.

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    8 months ago

    If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it’s r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinions and even now people are questioning Am I Overreacting and AITAH a lot. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent. I’m not surprised to see it was part of a fucking experiment.