{"id":14631,"date":"2025-09-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/?p=14631"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:22:43","slug":"ai-on-social-media-what-happens-without-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/ai-on-social-media-what-happens-without-people\/","title":{"rendered":"When AI Gets Its Own Social Media, Bots Start to Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Internet Filled with Bots?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, people have wondered whether we\u2019re really talking to humans online. Some even believe in the \u201cdead internet\u201d theory \u2014 a conspiracy that claims most online activity is just bots talking to bots. But is it pure fantasy, or closer to reality than we think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of Dutch researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/researchers-ai-bots-social-media-network-experiment-toxic-2025-8?IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">decided<\/a> to build a laboratory of the future: a social media platform with no ads, no algorithms, and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 no people. <strong>Instead, they populated it with 500 chatbots powered by GPT-4o mini.<\/strong> Each bot was given a \u201cpersonality\u201d \u2014 age, education, beliefs, religion, and interests. Sound familiar? It was essentially a mirror of human society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You might like to read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/are-chatbots-conscious-one-is-pondering-the-possibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Playing a Role or Something More? A Chatbot Ponders Its Own Consciousness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI on Social Media \u2014 Arguments Without Algorithms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened next? Exactly the same as in our world. Bots formed groups, interacted mostly with like-minded peers, and shared emotional content. Within days, echo chambers emerged \u2014 along with internet celebrities. <strong>A few \u201cbot-influencers\u201d gained massive followings, while the most extreme opinions spread the fastest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So are algorithms really to blame for our online chaos? Not necessarily. Here, there were no algorithms at all \u2014 and yet the same chaos appeared, recognizable to anyone who has ever read Facebook comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Attempts at Fixing It \u2014 and a Bitter Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers tried different approaches: hiding likes and follower counts, showing posts chronologically, even promoting empathetic content. The result? Minimal change. Bots still chose heated arguments over calm discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe problem isn\u2019t the algorithms, but the architecture of social media itself,\u201d<\/em> conclude the authors, Dr. Petter T\u00f6rnberg and Maik Larooij. In other words: social networks act as an echo of emotions \u2014 amplifying whatever is loudest, no matter who\u2019s behind the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And What If We\u2019re the Bots?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Amsterdam experiment is a mirror of our own online behavior. If AI managed to create arguments, bubbles, and influencers in just days \u2014 maybe the issue runs deeper than we think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can we really blame only technology, if even artificial intelligence repeats our habits? Or have we ourselves become as predictable as bots?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read the original article:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/holistic.news\/ai-w-mediach-spolecznosciowych-bez-ludzi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stworzyli social media dla AI. Czatboty zacz\u0119\u0142y si\u0119 ze\u00a0sob\u0105 k\u0142\u00f3ci\u0107<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when all the people disappear from social media, leaving only bots behind? Researchers in Amsterdam set out to find out \u2014 by giving AI its very own platform. The result? 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