@dangillmor manipulating or hampering open communications with others feels detrimental to our species on so many levels.

@dangillmor now why does that make me think about Threads? 🤔

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Years back, there was some news article about Facebook running an experiment on some users. I don't recall where.

Some users got feel-good content more in their feeds, and sentiment analysis of their content reflected improved mood.

Some users got more depressing feeds and posted content and comments reflecting their own lowered mood.

Searching. here is a reference...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747016115579531

AI tools make this sort manipulation easier.

@dangillmor textbook example of slop, that

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@dangillmor If you are still on fb, I have no sympathy whatsoever.

@dangillmor
They're trying to build The Matrix! :blobcat_wonder:

@dangillmor
Someone predicted in the future the internet would consist of only chatbots trying to sell products to each other