Season 8 · Episode 112 · Tuesday, April 6, 2027
Episode 7 of Season 8 · Story 112 of 116 · Topic: §11 — Legends: What Actually Happened
Facebook's Bots "Invented a Language and Were Shut Down in Panic"
◆ Myth vs. Fact feature: a famous claim, checked against the record.
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FAIR's own researcher: changing the experiment's reward parameters is not "unplugging" anything — the bots were redirected to prioritize English. The famous exchange was repetition used as counting shorthand, because nothing rewarded them for staying in English
The line above is the slate's own kicker for this story, carried over unchanged.
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Legend — a myth-vs-fact feature + Documented — from a primary record
LEGEND in the project's grading system means a myth-vs-fact feature only: the legend is the claim, checked against the record. DOCUMENTED in the project's grading system means the entry is sourced to a primary source.
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Releases Tuesday, April 6, 2027
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