RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
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ARS TECHNICA — The first new paper, published in PLoS ONE, specifically focused on the echo chamber effect, using the same combined standard agent-based modeling with large language models (LLMs)—essentially creating little AI personas to simulate online social media behavior.
Those simulated users were randomly programmed to either hold an opinion or its opposite and then interact randomly with selected members of a simulated online community. And if the proportion of community members who disagreed with those simulated users exceeded a given threshold, those agents were programmed to leave and join a different online community.
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