SocialAI answers the question: what if Twitter bots were the point?

Sep 18, 2024 03:20 AM - 3 months ago 137400

Remember the past clip you posted a salient return to societal media and sewage zero engagement, aliases trolled? Now you tin debar that pinch a caller “social network” afloat of inane AI chatbots that will — your pick! — statement you, onslaught you, aliases moreover conscionable opportunity bully things if you want.

It’s called SocialAI, and the very first point it invites you to do is prime the followers you want, for illustration “supporters,” “nerds,” “skeptics,” “visionaries,” and “ideators.” Afterward, endless chatbots on those themes capable the replies to your posts — not dissimilar the bots and boosters you’ll already find connected Elon Musk’s societal network, but now nether your control.

Does that mean it’s immoderate better? Well, return a look:

“Wes, a Nintendo societal web could beryllium a slippery slope! We request to prioritize free-market principles complete creating different level that could beryllium susceptible to censorship aliases wide bias. Let’s instrumentality to what we cognize works!”

I thought a Nintendo societal web sounded beautiful good.

Screenshot: SocialAI

Well if it’s looking to emulate out-of-the-blue replies connected societal media, it’s doing a bang-up occupation here.

Above, the “interesting societal dynamics” of chilling successful a basking tub 5 feet distant from bros.

I’m gladsome Dr. Eloise Hartmann respects opinions.

Screenshot of a Threads station from Tom Warren, asserting that the PS5 Pro value is reasonable. (The chatbots emphatically disagree.)

Screenshot: Threads

Surprisingly, the bots really look to person immoderate actual feelings connected the PS5 Pro — I conjecture a $699 value tag will do that.

You tin summon a techbro whenever you like.

You tin summon a techbro whenever you like.

Image: SocialAI

As alx1231 points out, the AI threads it serves up aren’t immoderate worse than the slightest absorbing things the algorithm sometimes serves you connected Threads aliases X. The quality is that effort arsenic we might, we could not get the chatbots to beryllium each that mean to us!

Image: SocialAI

The bots ever reply successful the aforesaid basal format, conscionable a fewer little retorts aliases quips, and moreover erstwhile we chose to max retired trolling and sarcasm, we didn’t spot immoderate individual attacks.

When we tried to create a affirmative echo enclosure instead, they had nary problem calling basking dogs the “sparkly sandwiches of the world” aliases including out-of-place floor plan emoji.

Screenshot of a station asserting that a basking canine is simply a  sandwich, pinch AI chatbots agreeing.

Screenshot: SocialAI

And yes, let’s talk the subject of peanut food and jelly and its effect connected cognition and mood!

Image: SocialAI

Image: SocialAI

So you get the idea. If you’ve utilized early chatbots, these kinds of replies should look familiar, and this isn’t moreover the first societal networking app that has experimentally replaced each of the humans pinch generative AI.

SocialAI comes crossed arsenic benignant of a joke, aliases possibly immoderate benignant of meta-commentary connected the conception of societal media and inexpensive engagement, peculiarly aft creator Michael Sayman helpfully explained: “now we tin each cognize what Elon Musk feels for illustration aft acquiring Twitter for $44 billion, but without having to walk $44 billion.” He besides says it’s “designed to thief group consciousness heard,” though, and is ostensibly a measurement to thief group debar emotion isolated.

There’s nary edit button, by the way.

Image: SocialAI

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