Robot 'pals' are invading social media - and it's time to unfriend them - The Week - 2 views
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As I argue in my book, behind socialbots stands a massive, powerful network, one we've been hearing a lot about lately: the network of surveillance, comprised both of global corporations who buy and sell our attention and governments who demand our obedience.
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This article argues that the massive amounts of data that we make available about ourselves online allow bots to become ever more "human" in their self-presenation and interactions. Again referring to Latour: the traceability of so much behavioural data makes the distinction between "social" and "psychological" harder to maintain. At the same time, the availability of data allows machines to parse (and pass) all the more effectively.
