(June 17, 2020 at 7:27 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Automation is coming I see no difference between building a bot and hiring people at 5 cents a task to mechanical turk that task. Or even older than that, pasting flyers to spread their propaganda.
My point is that people are going to bend the truth and manipulate data to accomplish their goals or less dysphemistically they are going to use tools of the game to win the game. Hopefully they are acting in good faith and if they are not hopefully one could use the same tech they use to root them out and expose them. It doesn't surprise or move me that people are using AI to accomplish the same thing they have been doing for centuries.
Changing truth is a crime in all communities. The laws that regulate and punish abusers of truth should cover the whole internet; not just a small part of it.
For example, protecting copyright was used in sites like google. Another example is Facebook's banning of abusive posts. Youtube too uses the similar techniques.
Your point is valid when we speak about a single human sharing their opinion. But when that person uses technology to automate their opinion to produce thousands -if not Millions- of spam messages then it is twisting of truth and compulsive forcing of an idea.
It's already illegal according to many sites. It should be illegal as a general rule.
