{"id":69905,"date":"2025-08-09T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69905\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:40:07","slug":"mn-residents-raise-concerns-about-ai-bots-in-facebook-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/69905\/","title":{"rendered":"MN residents raise concerns about AI bots in Facebook groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">If you\u2019re not sure if a post is AI-generated, \u201cdon\u2019t sit there on your own and try to figure it out,\u201d he said. \u201cTalk to your neighbor, family member. Don\u2019t ask online, \u2018Is this person a bot?\u2019 We\u2019ve forgotten how to go next door and talk to a real human being.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Facebook contends its AI assistants help members of private groups \u201cget instant answers and suggestions,\u201d and some people have embraced the new technology. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Ashley Robeck said she can\u2019t help but respond to the bot-generated posts that pepper an online group for Rosemount neighbors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThe question is almost irresistible,\u201d she said, adding that answering it \u201cfor sure helps boost engagement and the algorithm.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Jeffrey A. Hall, a University of Kansas communications professor who studies new media, said social media companies are likely using bots that post questions at a rapid clip to maximize likes, comments and their corollary \u2014 revenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">But research shows AI-generated content might repel people from online communities where they\u2019re seeking genuine connection, Hall said, unless bots improve so rapidly that people can no longer determine what\u2019s real or fake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re not sure if a post is AI-generated, \u201cdon\u2019t sit there on your own and try to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-69905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}