Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can’t keep up::Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how artificial intelligence is being used to scam people on social media platforms.
Why is the author suggesting government regulation should be involved here? Spamming and scamming is nothing new, at all. This is on the platforms to actually do a substantial job of moderating.
I said it in another thread. Only time I’ve seen media put out articles like this is to generate some new social fear that didn’t exist before so that new laws can be made to fuck over regular people. You can’t go 5 minutes without an “AI IS STEALING GRANDMA” article