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AI-Driven Social Media Platforms Lead to Echo Chambers and Conflict

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Source: Gizmodo
AI-Driven Social Media Platforms Lead to Echo Chambers and Conflict
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Researchers at the University of Amsterdam created a social media platform with AI chatbots assigned specific personas and found that, even without algorithms, the bots self-organized into echo chambers based on their beliefs, with partisan content gaining more attention. Various interventions failed to reduce polarization, suggesting social media may inherently reinforce human biases and behaviors.

Topics:top-newstechnology#ai#chatbots#experiments#polarization#social-media#technology
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