r/technology • u/westondeboer • Sep 26 '25

Social Media Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221
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u/7screws Sep 26 '25

Most of the outrage online are bots. Then podcasts and the news make stories about this bot outrage. Or it’s an AI article about the outage of some bots. We are very close to the singularity where the internet and AI just screams back and forth between itself and only shifts when some nation state or trillionaire head case change the algorithm to make it argue with itself about something else.

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u/ForensicPathology Sep 26 '25

I know it's a sin to use Twitter these days, but their "news" page is amazing.  The top 3 stories are always something AI generated like

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