Meta is deploying chatbots powered by AI to impersonate humans in its discussion groups. The chatbots make stuff up—that is their nature. One invents a nonexistent child. Another pretends to have nonexistent merchandise. It shouldn’t be necessary to explain how vile and poisonous this is, but Casey Fiesler @cfiesler spells it out:
@JamesGleick l'm looking forward to the day, the only thing left on Meta's platforms is millions of AI chat bots interacting with each other. It sometimes already seems to have become reality.