Hundreds of chatbots could show us how to make social media less toxic

A social media algorithm designed to bridge the hole between individuals with totally different political opinions may scale back the toxicity of on-line discourse and promote higher conversations. It seems to be efficient – at the least in checks on a whole bunch of AI-generated customers.

Petter Törnberg on the College of Amsterdam within the Netherlands and his colleagues created 500 chatbots powered by a large language model (LLM) and obtained them to work together with one another as in the event that they have been on a social …