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This is fascinating!! Researchers simulated a social media platform populated entirely by OpenAI chatbots and found none of their interventions could stop the platform itself from turning into a polarized, hellscape full of echo chambers. https://futurism.com/social-network-ai-intervention-echo-chamber
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Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild HappenedResearchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.
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