Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us
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The public reaction to Moltbook reveals as much about human psychology as about artificial intelligence.
“The public reaction to Moltbook-the willingness to attribute consciousness to statistically generated text, the financial frenzy of a memecoin rallying 1,800% on the premise of machine sentience-reveals as much about human psychology 19,20,32 as about artificial intelligence.”
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- Starbird, K.
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- University of Washington (US)
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- Starbird, Kate
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
- Keywords
- disinformation, online manipulation, bots, trolls, misinformation spread, online disinformation
- MeSH terms
- Administrative Personnel, Algorithms, Democracy, Goals, Humans, Deception, Politics, Research Personnel, Social Media
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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