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“The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it.”

— William Whyte

A recent study of web-based surveys reports that AI bots have a preference for “risky sexual behavior.”

That, at least, is what the bots say in those surveys, but surveys are self-reporting and therefore not conclusive. Who knows what they really get up to behind closed doors?

Either way, it’s a problem, because survey-answering bots are making it increasingly difficult to find out what people are getting up to.

Researchers in fields like economics, public health, consumer habits and…

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