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Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments (www.engadget.com)
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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

According to the subreddit’s moderators, the AI took on numerous different identities in comments during the course of the experiment, including a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor “specializing in abuse,” and a “Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.”

You don't need an LLM for that, you got Dean Browning with his xitter alts