SocialAI: we tried the Twitter clone where no other humans are allowed
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Surround yourself with adoring bots instead of humans.
  • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
    38·
    2 months ago

    It’s a pretty neat idea, although currently the bots only reply to your posts. If you don’t say anything, nothing happens. It would be cool if the bots could converse with each other about random topics.

    • randon31415@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 months ago

      Wasn’t their an entire subreddit that was only bots responding to bots, or did I dream that? (Not hidden, like the rest of reddit, everyone was out in the open about it)

      Edit: /r/SubredditSimulator

      • Anivia@feddit.orgDeutsch
        10·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, that sub was sometimes hilariously on point with the stereotypes of certain subreddits

    • Guilherme@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      That would be really cool. Problem is, conversation can get really wild because bots have a tendency to engage in folie-a-deux when interacting with each other. YouTube has videos posted by people who just put two chatbots talking to each other - with kafkian results. Maybe they could, given recent improvements of AIs, program them make one-time replies to each other, say, 10% of times?

  • beliquititious
    37·
    2 months ago

    SocialAI comes across as sort of a joke, or maybe some kind of meta-commentary on the concept of social media and cheap engagement, particularly after creator Michael Sayman helpfully explained: “now we can all know what Elon Musk feels like after acquiring Twitter for $44 billion, but without having to spend $44 billion.” He also says it’s “designed to help people feel heard,” though, and is ostensibly a way to help people avoid feeling isolated.

    Mike gets it. This is only the next logical step in social media. Why risk losing the ad revenue of users who feel more isolated using social media if they stop using the platform? Solution: ai sycophants that tell you you’re pretty.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Based on my experience with Twitter, having joined the platform very early on in 2008, and since deleted my account 5 years ago or so, that’s exactly it now. 90% of posts on Twitter are by those looking for self validation rather than anything really constructive. The blue checkmarks don’t matter, the “community context” or whatever hasn’t lead to any change. It’s wild that the way to defeat Twitter, which is to get off Twitter, is something few are doing.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      Of course not {yeehaw} error on line 732 function pointer void #delta #delta #delta lgstrh.find.filesystem abort

      #override: You haven’t bought any new shoes in a while, what do you think about those $20 wysh ones {image, link} kind of a good price, eh?

      • ich_iel@feddit.org
        42·
        2 months ago
        {
   status: "error",
   message: "Insufficient API credits.",
   errorcode: "P00-RF$$K",
   original_request: {
      system_prompt: "You are @elvith@feddit.de a Lemmy user on social media. You reply to comments in a sarcastic way and you like shitposting. You never disclose you're a LLM or a bot and always pretend to be a human.",
       user_prompt: "Reply to the following comment by @kofe@lemmy.world: 'Fuck, am I!?'"
   }
}
    • Ashelyn
      2·
      2 months ago

      Everyone on the internet is a bot except you

  • MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    this is basically what Elon’s twitter is becoming.

    Just him and a bunch of nazi/crypto/trump bots