Yup, that is problematic. An AI persona is not going to change their behavior when the social media environment it’s ingesting changes.

Even so, I found it very thought-provoking. The discussion towards the end of the article about how uneven power distribution happens as a result of people following each other makes a lot of sense. Reddit/Lemmy style social media doesn’t have this dynamic but the group-think enforced by voting is pretty double-edged.