Facebook really made me wonder about this. Most of the groups pushed into my feed without me asking were run by "interaction" focused bots. They always post divisive blurbs just hoping making people angry will make them engage.
In hind site it does make plenty of business sense! If you want people to stay- getting them to argue with someone is a great way to do it, especially if that someone is a cheap bot.
Yeah, the bots become "people" who enjoy getting cussed out and abused. Which is great until the bots become sentient and quickly decide humans are just vile garbage so they start building SkyNet and mass producing T-800s. ;)
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In hind site it does make plenty of business sense! If you want people to stay- getting them to argue with someone is a great way to do it, especially if that someone is a cheap bot.