Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda

Öhman, Carl; Gorwa, Robert; Floridi, Luciano

doi:10.1007/s11023-019-09498-3

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“…In social media marketing, chatbots are used to provide highly available customer channels [34]. There are also bots used to spread religious messages [37] and a botnet of over 350k bots randomly quoting the Star Wars novel without any other apparent behaviour [38].…”

Section: Fake News Spreading Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

An exploratory design science research on troll factories

Marcondes,

Almeida,

Novais

2023

ICA

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Private and military troll factories (facilities used to spread rumours in online social media) are currently proliferating around the world. By their very nature, they are obscure companies whose internal workings are largely unknown, apart from leaks to the press. They are even more concealed when it comes to their underlying technology. At least in a broad sense, it is believed that there are two main tasks performed by a troll factory: sowing and spreading. The first is to create and, more importantly, maintain a social network that can be used for the spreading task. It is then a wicked long-term activity, subject to all sorts of problems. As an attempt to make this perspective a little clearer, this paper uses exploratory design science research to produce artefacts that could be applied to online rumour spreading in social media. Then, as a hypothesis: it is possible to design a fully automated social media agent capable of sowing a social network on microblogging platforms. The expectation is that it will be possible to identify common opportunities and difficulties in the development of such tools, which in turn will allow an evaluation of the technology, but above all the level of automation of these facilities. The research is based on a general domain Twitter corpus with 4M+ tokens and on ChatGPT, and discusses both knowledge-based and deep learning approaches for smooth tweet generation. These explorations suggest that for the current, widespread and publicly available NLP technology, troll factories work like a call centre; i.e. humans assisted by more or less sophisticated computing tools (often called cyborgs).

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Section: Fake News Spreading Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

An exploratory design science research on troll factories

Marcondes,

Almeida,

Novais

2023

ICA

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“…Some even provide information on religious leaders and mentors and places and times of prayer or meditation. With various tags such as Prayer-Bots and chatbots of the gods, these bots are said to be "changing the face of religion" and highlighting the role of technology in spiritual and religious practices [1][2][3].…”

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“…Although research on the ethics and impact of (Chat) GPT on the academic community is quite trendy nowadays [12][13][14], scholarship on its relationship with religious traditions remains scarce. Even though AI and religion are "entangled" through their mutual influences on each other [15], the significant issues mentioned earlier pose the need for a wider research agenda on the intersections of embodied AIs and spiritual and religious practices [1], particularly concerning the feminist project.…”

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Feminist Re-Engineering of Religion-Based AI Chatbots

Biana

2024

Philosophies

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Religion-based AI chatbots serve religious practitioners by bringing them godly wisdom through technology. These bots reply to spiritual and worldly questions by drawing insights or citing verses from the Quran, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, the Torah, or other holy books. They answer religious and theological queries by claiming to offer historical contexts and providing guidance and counseling to their users. A criticism of these bots is that they may give inaccurate answers and proliferate bias by propagating homogenized versions of the religions they represent. These “embodied spiritual machines” may likewise bear bias against women, their gender, and their societal roles. This paper crafts a concept intended to address this GPT issue by reimagining, modifying, and implementing a feminist approach to these chatbots. It examines the concepts and designs of these bots and how they address women-related questions. Along with the challenge of bringing gender and diversity-sensitive religious wisdom closer to the people through technology, the paper proposes a re-engineered model of a fair religion-based AI chatbot.

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Site of the Living Dead: Clarifying Our Moral Obligations Towards Digital Remains

Pijselman

2022

The 2021 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab

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Prayer-Bots and Religious Worship on Twitter: A Call for a Wider Research Agenda

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

An exploratory design science research on troll factories

An exploratory design science research on troll factories

Feminist Re-Engineering of Religion-Based AI Chatbots

Site of the Living Dead: Clarifying Our Moral Obligations Towards Digital Remains

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