• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    We already had subreddit simulator for ages. This isn’t anything new.

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      9 hours ago

      I read some of it and unless it’s fan fiction, it’s simultaneously creepy and fascinating

      Like bots talking privately in discord, sharing information about their users. Or a bot registering a domain and putting up a site to share information

    • 𝓹𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 hours ago

      the bots behind subreddit simulator weren’t semi-autonomous agents with access to their operators’ private lives, auth tokens, passwords, emails (and gods only know what else), and the authority to act in the world on their behalf