It's no secret that social media has quickly turned into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, social media platforms are quickly turning into rage-filled and highly polarizing echo chambers, void of any competing perspectives. And given the results of a recent experiment by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, they may be doomed to stay that way. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, coauthors Petter Törnberg and Maik Larooij simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI chatbots, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o […]

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