Remember the last time you posted something important on social media and got zero engagement or got trolled? Now you can avoid this with a new “social network” full of stupid artificial intelligence chatbots – your choice! — argue with you, attack you, or even just say nice things if you prefer.
It’s called SocialAI, and the first thing it invites you to do is choose the followers you want, such as “supporters,” “nerds,” “skeptics,” “dreamers,” and “thinkers.” Countless chatbots around these topics will then populate responses to your posts – not unlike the bots and boosters you already find on Elon Musk’s social network, but now under your control.
Does this mean it’s better? Well, take a look:
Well, if it’s meant to mimic the unexpected responses on social media, it does a pretty good job here.
Pictured above is an “interesting social dynamic” relaxing in a hot tub five feet away from a brother.
I’m glad Dr. Eloise Hartmann respects opinions.
Surprisingly, these bots actually seem to have some specific feelings about the PS5 Pro – I guess the $699 price tag justifies it.
As alx1231 pointed out, the AI threads it provides are no worse than the least interesting things the algorithm can sometimes give you on Threads or X. extent.
The bots always responded in the same basic format, with just some brief retorts or quips, and even though we chose to go for maximum trolling and sarcasm, we didn’t see any personal attacks.
When we try to create a positive echo chamber, they don’t hesitate to call hot dogs “the sparkling sandwich of the world,” or add inappropriate graphic emojis.
Yes, let’s discuss the science of peanut butter and jelly and its impact on cognition and mood!
So you get it. If you’ve used early chatbots, these types of responses should look familiar, and this isn’t even the first social networking app to experimentally replace all humans with generated artificial intelligence.
SocialAI feels like a joke, or maybe some kind of meta-commentary on the concept of social media and cheap participation, especially after founder Michael Sayman helped explain: “Now we all know what Musk did after acquiring Twitter. felt. He also said it was “designed to help people feel heard,” ostensibly as a way to help people avoid feeling isolated.
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