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		perseusprime11 on Dec 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's Fake Review Problem This is not just Amazon’s problem. App store ratings, Reddit comments, Twitter/FB feeds, and Net Neutrality comments are all gamed. We are living in the age of human controlled bots looking to manipulate other humans through what we read.

mathgenius on Dec 16, 2017 [–]

Yeah, these are all "message passing" algorithms, like belief propagation. The whole financial system itself is another good example of this.

perseusprime11 on Dec 17, 2017 | [–]

I hope Hacker News will be the last bastion for fake comments. At least, I have never seen bots lurking around on Hacker News.

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