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- Jul 14, 2022
I know this is late response but that is interesting I wonder who gains the most from homeless propaganda.I'm trying to figure out a very weird post on Nextdoor. It was so weird that I looked at the guys profile and he joined the day he made the post. He wrote a long vague screed about how we need to be reminded to be compassionate to the homeless. What was weird was how it wasn't inflammatory or argumentative - he claimed many times that he understood the trouble with living around homeless people. It reminded me of a friend at work showing me how she ran an angry email through AI to make it more palatable to the recipient before she hit send.
The other thing that was weird was that he responded to everyone posting in the most bizarre way. Long comments either appreciating the compassion or claiming he understood the frustration but reminding them to be compassionate. Every response was a long paragraph. He also made several comments to no one in particular.
So I'm thinking AI, it's pretty obvious. But why?
Every usual homeless advocate in the area was jumping in to signal their virtue not realizing what they were talking to, but did it matter if they did know they were talking to AI? There were only a handful of people pointing out that homeless initiatives aren't working, that we're just attracting them here, that its an environmental disaster, but their comments were pretty well drowned out.
I just can't understand the reasoning behind the homeless support to the point of making fake accounts. Just why?
The homeless people aren't the ones putting it out there
Obviously you don't wanna doxx yourself so you can't share the post but I wonder if the person making the posts is even a real identity or if it's just a made up person