AI bots flooded UK disposable‑vapes consultation in 2023
Three-quarters of the responses to the 2023 UK govt consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated. 90,835 of the 118,756 responses were by bots. Corporations have a new tool for subverting polices and public opinion; to increase profits, spread addiction, health hazards.
noirpi.bsky.social3Who would thought that the Corporations would use AI to kill even more people then before? It's not that this has not happened before in the world Look at cigarettes, alcohol, thalidomide..
Steve2See also restaurant bookings, complaints forms, in fact any online form, so government and industry will have to sift through mountains of slop. This will have a huge cost
HenoriusBooticus #FBPE 🇪🇺2Lets hope the Hunting Lobby are still sending fox tails to harass mps who want to stop trail hunting and haven't discovered the 20th century yet.
Tocoso2This shows that any consultation with the public cannot be taken as true. This was 3 years ago. Can polls be trusted anymore?.
Deedee1How to exclude machine generated content from social media??
Perryfin1Same companies who fund small boats and cheer Farage imo.
While it's good that DHSC spotted this, I think we can be pretty sure this is happening on a local level with far less scrutiny and screening. There is no verification process (from what I can tell) for responding to consultations in my council area www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Woodo3It's just more evidence that AI is a net bad and pollutes more than it creates on literally every metric.
Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈2Luckily, Wirral Council have a protocol in place for this. It is to ignore all responses to their consultations, and just to go with the outcome they wanted initially.
