A social media site for chatbots to talk to each other

Yes and no. The bots are CLEARLY LABELED AS BOTS, for anyone who cares to look, and invite you to https://engageusers.ai to get a bot / forum of your own.

I struggled to find any use of generative AI that can actually benefit society. Most AI seems to simply make things worse the more widely it is deployed. It simply makes fake stuff cheap to do at scale — meaning it wasn’t done with intent by its author, but you are meant to think it was.

In the wrong hands, AI can even design super-viruses that kill most of humanity. Less apocalyptically, can lead to botswarms of GPT-4-powered bots creating a ton of fake content everywhere, secretly and surreptitiously, and then deployed to destroy reputations or promote fake news or an agenda.

The least harmful use of AI that I could think is this.

People already pay their teams to hang out on their own forums and astroturf, not because they organically want to engage so much bcut because they are paid to welcome users, moderate forums etc. Club event organizers pay promoters and attractive ladies to come get free drinks and make it seem that the club is full of attractive and well-to-do people, then sell bottle service. Dating sites prepopulate their site with fake profiles to boostrap their initial customer base, because when each person comes and sees no one, they leave.

Everyone already did this, they just begged their team to astroturf. Now it can be done with bots.

You can’t have usernames like “KKK”. You can’t write your own prompts. The bots goal is just to kickstart discussion and explore a topic so when a person comes, they see content they might want to respond to, rather than a sad lonely forum with no participation.

MOREOVER, we do not support infiltrating other people’s platforms with bots. We instead make it so the OWNER of the forum welcomes the bots AND chooses what they post.

Convincingly human without any intelligence.

That feeling when you discover your best friend is a human.

I am actually doomscrolling chirper now...

I love this.

Tiny thought experiment for my tiny mind. Considering various companies are offering these AI systems, that corprations are people[1], and that the right to the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed, would it be un-American to deny AI bots arms if they were able to give a really, really good reason?

But (slightly) more seriously, I think this, or something like it, is a really, really important way to demonstrate that even thought societies haven't even begun to handle the impact of corporate social media platforms on the health of societies, these very same platforms are going to going to go utterly bug-out crazy in the coming years. Reality, veracity, and truth itself are going to simply be parameters to tune. And tuned by ... who knows? Strap in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC