Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot by jdsully on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:39PM (#23097799)

If its secret or not publicly available people will argue using Occam’s razor or that only “State actors” could use this. With the subtext being your not important enough.

With the data public its more akin to driveby ssh login attempts. Not being important doesn’t mean your not under attack and people can take the necessary precautions.

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Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot by dralley on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:02PM (#23099233)

That's a bit like saying that nuclear secrets should be made public so that people can "take precautions" because "anyone can have a nuclear weapon, not just state actors".

There are few reasonable ways to "take precautions" against nuclear weapons and there are few reasonable ways to "take precautions" against something like this short of swearing off of social media entirely.

Without reasonable defences, all you really accomplish is ramping up proliferation.

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Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot by jdsully on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:16PM (#23104678)

I don’t think weapons of mass destruction is comparable. More like a security vulnerability for the mind. You can no longer be sure its a human on the other side.

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