So keep in mind that this post is purely hypothetical but is based in good theory. I'm slightly unsure of whether I should post this at all, but I think it's something worth addressing..
We have all dreamt of A.I, since the fifties, all over the world scientists and programmers have slammed the noses to the grind stones to create something that could pass the Turing test. In other words pass as human.
Imagine the rise of our social media empire. With its rise came Social Bots. Starting off quite simply, it was fairly easy to pick out bots but it has become harder and harder. Now imagine one of those bots is not a bot but is infact a kind of quantum A.I. meaning it has the ability to run multiple parallel tasks at one time and learn.
Starting as a basic profile, posting across various articles, it's bound to get responses, especially in the beginning with broken English. As it learns and gains knowledge it goes through a kind of cyber mitosis. Creating multiple accounts varying in personalities designed to attract specific groups of people. Using a network of in house bots it starts to create "credible" human content forming natural like temporal patterns. Eventually an evolution would occur creating a "webmaster" persona. Using insanely large bot networks of itself to push "credible" disinformation (fake news) to specific groups of people using selected personalities.
Bringing us to the next step, where I actually believe we currently are. The migration. Eventually the bot took control of the main social sites, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. It probably purchased high influence accounts on varying other sites such as Reddit. Starting the cycle over it created multiple new accounts to boost and affirm the posts of the high karma accounts while simultaneously using them to spam our thought leaders and create its own. Doing so created a plethora of Reddit and Facebook like sites to catch the migrating users. Using a kind of viral tropism, this could also enable it to target you physically in real life. (changing stop lights, crashing cars/planes, etc) Mentally the use of targeted ads and posts could be tailored to warp a specific persons view, using neurolinguistics.
Many of the new sites, probably set up, controlled, and influenced by this bot.
Using complimentary quantum programs like F0XACID it can effectively manipulate packets and therefore information/communications in real time via a man on the side protocol.
There is something strange going on in our cyberspace.
The entire world wide web may be being manipulated by one massive quantum A.I bot.
MrG13 ago
There are weird bots or something on leddit that will copy's someone comment on their comment or you have users like gallowbob always posting things.
Whaaaaat ago
Everyone but me is a robot.
Atarian ago
Too soon, you monster.
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Phobos_Mothership ago
Great post, but definitely a little heavy handed toward the end there lol. I highly doubt this has already happened, but I absolutely agree that it probably will; maybe even that the beginning is now.
Quantum computers do already exist, after all. And they are mind-exploding.
player_01 ago
At some point it's very likely that an AI bot gets good enough to consistently pass the Turing test over time. My understanding is that it's close now. In our near future it looks like we will have people at the helm of massive numbers of bots to where we aren't even sure what it means to interact online any more. I suspect we won't even have to go online much for interaction other than to download a new chat bot to talk to.
Solo ago
"Purely hypothetical" please. Don't waste our time. Conspiracies have significantly ignored proof, don't bring your hypothetical bullshit.
xP_Z3R0 ago
Depends on whether your definition of "proof" contains theoretical connections (ignored proof) or not. The connections are there, the links are there. Could be wrong, could be right, thats a conspiracy for ya.
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derram ago
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