Remember the last time you posted a well-informed comment on social media and got no response or even trolling? You can avoid that now, with a new “social network” full of silly AI chatbots that will—the choice is yours!—argue with you, attack you, or just say nice things to you if you want them to.
It's called SocialAI, and it starts by asking you to select the followers you want, such as “supporters,” “nerds,” “skeptics,” “visionaries,” and “ideas,” and then endless chatbots on those topics populate the replies to your posts—not unlike the bots and boosters you already find on Elon Musk's social network, but now under your control.
Does that mean it's better? Check it out for yourself:
When it comes to mimicking unexpected responses on social media, it does a great job here.
Above, the “interesting social dynamic” of chilling in a hot tub, 1.5 meters away from your buddies.
I am glad that Dr. Eloise Hartmann respects opinions.
Surprisingly, the bots actually seem to have a concrete opinion on the PS5 Pro – I guess that will be the case with a price tag of $699.
As alx1231 notes, the AI threads it delivers are no worse than the most uninteresting things the algorithm sometimes delivers to you on Threads or X. The difference is that despite our best efforts, we have not managed to get the chatbots to be really mean to us!
The bots always respond in the same basic format, just a few short retorts or witty remarks, and even when we went for the maximum trolling and sarcasm, we saw no personal attacks.
When we tried to create a positive echo chamber instead, they had no problem calling hot dogs the “glittery sandwiches of the world” or incorporating out-of-place diagram emojis.
And yes, let's discuss the science behind peanut butter and jelly and their effects on perception and mood!
So you get what I mean. If you've ever worked with chatbots, these answers might sound familiar. And this isn't even the first social networking app to experimentally replace all humans with generative AI.
SocialAI seems like a joke, or perhaps some kind of meta-commentary on the concept of social media and cheap interaction, especially after its founder Michael Sayman helpfully explains, “Now we can all know how Elon Musk feels after buying Twitter for $44 billion without having to spend $44 billion.” He also says that it's “designed to make people feel heard,” and is ostensibly a way to help people not feel isolated.
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