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A Twitter-like app where you are the only actual user and every other "user" is an AI bot. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's just X?

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

With more steps

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are the other AI bots still right wing racists?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

You get to decide!

You can make an entire social media full of communists who know Marx by heart.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Folks? Y'all not bots are ya...?

...are ya?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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?

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck, am I!?

[–] elvith@feddit.org 46 points 1 day ago (1 children) 
{
   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!?'"
   }
}
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

The code block formatting on lemmy is nice. (Currently using the Eternity lemmy app)

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone on the internet is a bot except you

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Nah man 😂😂😂, we’re just your biggest fans!

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Bot's you say? Let's explore that conundrum and consider both sides!

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.org 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day 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?

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

this is basically what Elon's twitter is becoming.

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

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

r/SubredditSimulator but for Twitter?

Honestly, would use it for shits and giggles.

[–] RedStrider@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

this may be the closest approximation we have to an actual purgatory

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

In fairness, Miitomo was a dumpster fire from its inception.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Talk about an echo chamber, haha

[–] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

It's Ashley Madison when you signed up as male!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

A tech company said "how do we turn everybody's phone into the Truman show?"

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Taking the social out of social media, cool

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Massive improvement

[–] november@lemmy.vg 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How can anyone like reading those samey-same replies constantly?

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

God I know, Twitter is just the worst!

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 4 points 1 day ago

A Twitter simulator? Is this a training app for "social media managers"?

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kind of like asking "are we are living in a simulation", but not wanting to know the answer. Even if you really strongly believe its true.

The difference between this AI app and Twitter being, you know its a simulation.

Does that make it any less real though would be the question, once you knew?