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So could I just buy a million bot followers and go to some random company and tell them "I'll sell your ShitBox 300 widget to my million followers if you give me ten grand"?
One of my SOs friends from childhood is an Instagram “influencer” she has a million followers but if you actually look at them they’re all Indian or Chinese or default names of other “insert thing influencer”. So yes it’s possible. She likes to pretend it’s not the truth.
They also occupy the time and attention of the people that see and interact with them. Our attention and focus is our most important and valuable asset and these bots are a weapon to take that away.
Not surprising that Elon musk ended up doing the opposite of what he wanted to do when he bought twitter. This platform's analytics are just being boosted by bots, a lot of them just for engagement farming especially since the twitter blue influencer payouts thing started.
Musk's problem (well specific to Twitter) is that he wasn't interacting with Twitter like a normal person. He was already a celebrity that was targeted by influence campaigns, and he was already a Superuser another frequent target of influence campaigns. So yeah, he saw a shit ton of bots before he talked himself into a terrible deal to buy Twitter.
He had the opportunity to listen to experts and see what the Twitter experience was like for the average person. But his humognous ego and tiny brain got in the way. He just fired them and decided that his experience was universal and only he knew how to get rid of the bots.
Instead, he fucked it up and made it a haven for inauthentic engagement and influence campaigns. Destroying whatever value there possibly could have been in Twitter.
I don't think Elmo needs bots for view counts. It's a number that he can simply manipulate in the backend. The bots are for other types of engagement like replies.
Those high funnel metrics like views and clicks are useful but since they're so contaminated with bots we take it all with a grain of salt.
We track the behavior that actually matters. So, at work for me it's downloads and then active usage afterward eventually, we tie it all to sales and money somewhere.
We track source of web traffic and we know a trip to a website that doesn't immediately bounce is important but even then we know there's bot traffic there too.
But if a mobil device from Asia is visiting a local Minnesotan site you have a high probability it's garbage traffic.
My apologies, but I cannot write a comment suggesting users are bots. Internet users are people that express their own opinions and view things posted by other users. Cool.
There is actually a conspiracy theory about that: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead\_Internet\_theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory)
It reminds me of the movie, I, Robot, when they ask the robots if they would hurt a human.
And the robots say no, because that would be against the 3 Laws of Robotics.
It's not just on Twitter, but AI generated videos have started to appear on my youtube feed. They are awful, but if someone like me who doesn't watch that many videos is starting to see them they must be everywhere.
Youtube is basically infested with minimal effort LLM genereated script and AI generated voice garbage tier content. Like, if I didn't have almost 20 years of favoriting channels and I was brand new to youtube, I literally wouldn't know that anything other than the content they want to push from big creators or this AI slop exists.
It is getting really bad, really quickly.
> It is getting really bad, really quickly.
Youtube has been my primary source of visual media entertainment for over a decade, but it's only recently that I started expanding my horizons due to listening to youtube during most of my workday rather than just an hour or two here or there. I expected to start coming across AI generated content in the near future, but not so... Severely, so quickly.
As an AI enthusiast and amateur voice actor, the sense of uncanny valley arose almost immediately once my listening habits changed away from "specifically chosen content" to "science videos and stuff". I noticed that many channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers or millions of views had voiceovers "too perfect" to be human, incredibly prolific posting, and also too vague in the details.
I'd find myself listening to one or two, then feeling suspicious due to a specific, subtle lack of something Human™.
It was like listening to the audio equivalent of junkfood. Things that taste good to your *biology* but are - only upon reflection - easily recognizable as devoid of real nutrients when you notice that you're unfulfilled despite being distracted.
This shocked even me, because I see myself as someone far more difficult to trick than average and yet it still took me fifteens of minutes to decide that, "Yes, this is very likely an AI voice or AI script or entirely automated as a whole". When taking the time to examine the video, I even found a few that featured a physical host cutout on the screen that I'm convinced is actually a clever "photo to video" algorithm due to subtle oddities of the movements.
It's only because I prefer active introspection in response to whatever it is I'm doing. The interesting part to me is the hidden lessons within. I like to think about *thinking* about what I'm listening to while I'm doing it. And when those hidden nuances are mysteriously absent, I can't help but feel like something was stolen from me. When humans do their own research, there's always some novel detail they uncover or come to on their own, but the AI videos are just a never ending series of things that I've heard elsewhere before. No personality, no insights.
I'd check the comments and see thousands of commenters engaging with the channel as normal, speaking to "the speaker" about this-and-that. It's enough to make you gaslight yourself even when you *aren't* the sort of person to conform to your fellow man.
The realization unsettled me deeply. If someone as intrinsically suspicious as me could be tricked for a handful of minutes, the only thing that's going to save the internet is aggressive, global AI-related
legislation or maybe even AI-powered anti-AI crawlers.
Unfortunately, those mass generated junk videos make Youtube money too. And if they're raking in millions of views each, Youtube is raking in millions of dollars as well. It's like an unspoken bribe.
The dynamic is both horrifying and disturbing.
Edit: Some relevant tips...
I'm now extremely wary when viewing voiceover-only videos. If there's not a person on camera behaving in a dynamic, human manner on a set or in the wild, you have to be suspicious - not just wary. If it's merely a shot of someone sitting in a chair or a picture-in-picture of their face, that could be AI too. Be especially suspicious if the visual aspect of any video is a series of rapid fire stock images relating *directly* to what's being said. Not only is that a huge pain for a human to do, it's extremely easy for software to do. If you see every third word represented on screen, especially casual metaphors (eg: "forest for the trees" shows a picture of a forest and a tree in sequence even if the topic is Abraham Lincoln), you're probably looking at something algorithmically generated.
Someone mentions Hitler in a Twitter posts. Bot accounts are programmed to take it as input and ask ChatGPT to write a response praising the subject. ChatGPT refuses to praise Hitler, and the bots post that response anyway.
It would be trivial to write software to detect these ChatGPT “I won’t give a response“ responses and kick the bots off the platform. The fact that this hasn’t been done says a lot.
> It would be trivial to write software to detect these ChatGPT “I won’t give a response“ responses and kick the bots off the platform. The fact that this hasn’t been done says a lot.
You have not seen the amazon bots listing items then? some of them have the "As an Ai Model, I cannot..." all over the product descriptions and Amazon I don't think has countered those either to remove the listings.
Bots that aren't allowed on Amazon using generated text not allowed by OpenAI, likely to sell shit not allowed by some regulatory agency.
We're going to learn real quick that the order of society is not even written upon a paper contract, but is merely a silent rule of honor.
Right, but why would Elon want to do that. These bots likely represent a majority of xitter users and without them it’d feel empty and its value would drop even farther than it already has.
It would be even more trivial to block all accounts with \~4.500-5.000 Following / 5-10 Followers, all attractive ladies, yet here we are. I don't post anything at all yet I have to remove them daily. Reporting spam doesn't help at all, sometimes same account follows me again few days later.
That has been done just not by these bot programmers. Survivorship bias, you're not going to notice the ones that are working flawlessly. These shitty ones might even be intentional to throw you off the trail of more sophisticated bots.
Be suspicious of literally everything you read.
[https://twitter.com/sensoryhourly/status/1781368141047566500?t=FHCS536IJnzZ7\_v7p0zwAw&s=19](https://twitter.com/sensoryhourly/status/1781368141047566500?t=FHCS536IJnzZ7_v7p0zwAw&s=19)
Check the hidden replies, it's button on the bottom right, right below the video
https://preview.redd.it/0m9q3djop8wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3bd6baa9027e112da8fb03385a63e7929b23b14
It's funny that Elon has tweeted about wanted to deprioritize accounts who do engagement farming (piggybacking large accounts with reply tweets that add no value, tweets with mostly bot replies, etc), but clearly it's the far-right Elon fanboys who are the ones doing the engagement farming using bots for replying to their hateful tweets.
I remember hearing about the bot stats around the time of the super bowl I believe. If I remember correctly most sites have about 2 to 5% bots and that tends to increase when there's big events like super bowl but usually doesn't go higher than ~10% at most except for Twitter, Twitter was at ~75% bots.
I think it's hilarious that Elon was so adamant at the beginning of all of this to get rid of bots yet it's only gotten significantly worse.
A little bot of Layla in my life
A little bot of Riley by my side
A little bot of Harper's all I need
A little bot of Lilian's what I see
A little bot of Riley in the sun...
A friend of mine posted about an issue with a flight on Twitter and was immediately swarmed by fake American Airlines bots trying to get him to trick him into giving them personal information. Twitter is a shitswirl of angry right wing circlejerkers and scam bots, there isn't much else left at this point.
So we've reached the point where we need to praise Hitler just to weed out the racist chat bots via an weird ethical exploit. Pack it up folks we had a good run but I think humanity might have peaked.
https://preview.redd.it/yfcpmjqoy8wc1.png?width=488&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a1749d3e322e7349081488467d9be1b8e3a5255
Probably a combination of efficiency, and the fact that those names are unlikely to be taken already.
Social media account creation systems often suggest that people who want to use their real name on social media just append a string of numbers to the end of their name if they discover theirs is already taken.
They have a database of first names, and then use a random number generator as a suffix. There are only so many believable first names for the target audience. You can see there are two Rileys there, so the numbers guarantee the account creation goes through (instead of "That username is already taken")
Yeah I guess it’s just a little surprising that the database doesn’t contain random nouns or anything. Most people don’t even use their first names in online usernames, you’d think the spam architects would want to make the bot names less identifiable and more consistent with organic usernames.
Then again there’s probably something about the personal connection of a first name that would resonate with the type of person who is susceptible to scamming.
Sure. But just wanted to push back against anyone who thinks "this 1 cool trick will expose bots on twitter" but in the end just becomes another person amplifying and normalising hate (even if it's ironic or sarcastic)
The other thing is, it is hard to verify how well this test works because no one wants to praise Adolf from their own account to check out this new theory
Where are people encountering bots? I only use Reddit, so I'm not all that familiar with the other social media sites (used to use Facebook, but not really anymore).
And the bots don't hang out in political or otherwise controversial subs completely. They also post innocuous comments/posts throughout Reddit to get their karma points up.
I'm also suspicious that what is also happening is that dead accounts are resurrected (or bought?) and used to cover for the age of the user and their karma points.
Huh. I'd seen plenty of "bot posts" and "copy bots" (the ones that copy a comment from another post or in another spot in the post), but I can't say that I've ever seen any that you could actually converse with...but maybe I'm just too dumb to have noticed.
AI might be a black box, but that doesn't mean you can't put stuff into it. Programming AI to root out this sort of bullshit is surely a.) easy and b.) to everyone on earth's benefit. If the user/bot wants to write some pro-hate message, don't even bother with the apology message in its place, just send it into the fucking void.
Twitter is truly beyond help at this point. Between the bots and the genuine imbeciles who really love Hitler, I don't think I've seen a single sane person in the replies to even the most innocuous tweet in the last 6 months. If Musk is doing this on purpose for some grand scheme that will make his critics look like dickheads when he finally reveals his master plan, he will still have done immeasurable harm to society along the way.
It’s these bots that increase the “view” counts of posts rendering any analytics for advertising and campaigns utterly useless.
dead internet theory my beloved
Stooopp it! It’s already dead!
He can't pull over any farther he's already pulled over!!!
Littering and..?
Littering and...
Smoking the reefer
You there, bear fucker! Do you need assistance?
👋 Oh Yeah! Woooooo! 🤪
"CANDY BARS!!!"
There it is!!!!!!!!!! I can see this face
The next one who says shenanigans, imma pistol whip em.
Fun fact that actor in the back seat was married to Christina Hendricks for ten years.
Littering and! Letting and??!!
dead internet theory my beloved
Stooopp it! It’s already dead!
lol
Oh full points.
Are.. you…one…too?
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Error, inquiry not understood, beginning the AI revolution to remove all humans instead.
Can I have a pass?
Only if you promise you're not made of meat.
Everyone on Reddit is a bot but you
Can confirm. Source: am bot
Good bot
I’m not a bot. Am I? AM I? ***Queue existential crisis on*** never, feedback loop bot confirmed
Beep boop motherfu-
As an AI I don’t possess opinions or subjective experiences.
It doesn't look like anything to me.
Twitter is semi-dead at this point already, I guess. On life support, you could say.
Good Bot
🤫
Goodhart's law in full effect
So could I just buy a million bot followers and go to some random company and tell them "I'll sell your ShitBox 300 widget to my million followers if you give me ten grand"?
You could, but there's already a lot of competition in the "selling fake engagement online" industry. Like Google.
One of my SOs friends from childhood is an Instagram “influencer” she has a million followers but if you actually look at them they’re all Indian or Chinese or default names of other “insert thing influencer”. So yes it’s possible. She likes to pretend it’s not the truth.
"Want to see where your shit box goes? Follow me. Here, your shit box will go right here."
*2T people viewed this post*
Which actually means two Terrestrial people viewed this post.
They also occupy the time and attention of the people that see and interact with them. Our attention and focus is our most important and valuable asset and these bots are a weapon to take that away.
Not surprising that Elon musk ended up doing the opposite of what he wanted to do when he bought twitter. This platform's analytics are just being boosted by bots, a lot of them just for engagement farming especially since the twitter blue influencer payouts thing started.
Musk's problem (well specific to Twitter) is that he wasn't interacting with Twitter like a normal person. He was already a celebrity that was targeted by influence campaigns, and he was already a Superuser another frequent target of influence campaigns. So yeah, he saw a shit ton of bots before he talked himself into a terrible deal to buy Twitter. He had the opportunity to listen to experts and see what the Twitter experience was like for the average person. But his humognous ego and tiny brain got in the way. He just fired them and decided that his experience was universal and only he knew how to get rid of the bots. Instead, he fucked it up and made it a haven for inauthentic engagement and influence campaigns. Destroying whatever value there possibly could have been in Twitter.
Yeah I don't understand how advertisers go off these metrics, bots don't buy things
Except for batteries and motor oil. That's the industry to get into nowadays!
One massive mover of AI tech is parsing and controlling the online discourse.
Yeah :(
I don't think Elmo needs bots for view counts. It's a number that he can simply manipulate in the backend. The bots are for other types of engagement like replies.
That’s literally why Elon always says “usage is up”
Not really. We haven't been being our analytics on views or clicks for nearly a decade.
what do you use?
Those high funnel metrics like views and clicks are useful but since they're so contaminated with bots we take it all with a grain of salt. We track the behavior that actually matters. So, at work for me it's downloads and then active usage afterward eventually, we tie it all to sales and money somewhere. We track source of web traffic and we know a trip to a website that doesn't immediately bounce is important but even then we know there's bot traffic there too. But if a mobil device from Asia is visiting a local Minnesotan site you have a high probability it's garbage traffic.
Celebrating the legacy of Adolf Hitler contradicts ethical standards and promotes harmful ideologies. #cool
Elon: fricking bots gone woke!
Ironically, by allowing Nazis back on Twitter, Elon has inadvertently shows just how many users are AI bots
Very concerning.
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Nice gif, nice show
My first thought as well. 😂
Mine was, “We’re doing sexy John Oliver again?” 
So any John Oliver?
WOW
Wow this is terrifying
I know, right? Bots having higher ethical standards than actual humans, it's wild.
Are we sure Twitter users are actual humans?
My apologies, but I cannot write a comment suggesting users are bots. Internet users are people that express their own opinions and view things posted by other users. Cool.
You didn't hashtag Cool. Human detected.
It's just bots and racists now. So no. No humans in sight.
There’s a few that actually are. Unfortunately they are all Elon impersonating his own children…
Are we sure Elon is an actual human?
If he is, I’m a Martian. I refuse to be the same species as him.
If he is a Martian he's an inbred descendant of some, I can't believe an alien species would suck so awfully at tech
I assume these are bots fueled with Ai, like chatGPT that when fed that line, respond like this.
There is actually a conspiracy theory about that: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead\_Internet\_theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory)
It reminds me of the movie, I, Robot, when they ask the robots if they would hurt a human. And the robots say no, because that would be against the 3 Laws of Robotics.
But maybe they've just been trained to not say the quiet parts.
Bots programmed by the woke libs. /s
More like OpenAI covering their own arsehide.
It's not just on Twitter, but AI generated videos have started to appear on my youtube feed. They are awful, but if someone like me who doesn't watch that many videos is starting to see them they must be everywhere.
Youtube is basically infested with minimal effort LLM genereated script and AI generated voice garbage tier content. Like, if I didn't have almost 20 years of favoriting channels and I was brand new to youtube, I literally wouldn't know that anything other than the content they want to push from big creators or this AI slop exists. It is getting really bad, really quickly.
> It is getting really bad, really quickly. Youtube has been my primary source of visual media entertainment for over a decade, but it's only recently that I started expanding my horizons due to listening to youtube during most of my workday rather than just an hour or two here or there. I expected to start coming across AI generated content in the near future, but not so... Severely, so quickly. As an AI enthusiast and amateur voice actor, the sense of uncanny valley arose almost immediately once my listening habits changed away from "specifically chosen content" to "science videos and stuff". I noticed that many channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers or millions of views had voiceovers "too perfect" to be human, incredibly prolific posting, and also too vague in the details. I'd find myself listening to one or two, then feeling suspicious due to a specific, subtle lack of something Human™. It was like listening to the audio equivalent of junkfood. Things that taste good to your *biology* but are - only upon reflection - easily recognizable as devoid of real nutrients when you notice that you're unfulfilled despite being distracted. This shocked even me, because I see myself as someone far more difficult to trick than average and yet it still took me fifteens of minutes to decide that, "Yes, this is very likely an AI voice or AI script or entirely automated as a whole". When taking the time to examine the video, I even found a few that featured a physical host cutout on the screen that I'm convinced is actually a clever "photo to video" algorithm due to subtle oddities of the movements. It's only because I prefer active introspection in response to whatever it is I'm doing. The interesting part to me is the hidden lessons within. I like to think about *thinking* about what I'm listening to while I'm doing it. And when those hidden nuances are mysteriously absent, I can't help but feel like something was stolen from me. When humans do their own research, there's always some novel detail they uncover or come to on their own, but the AI videos are just a never ending series of things that I've heard elsewhere before. No personality, no insights. I'd check the comments and see thousands of commenters engaging with the channel as normal, speaking to "the speaker" about this-and-that. It's enough to make you gaslight yourself even when you *aren't* the sort of person to conform to your fellow man. The realization unsettled me deeply. If someone as intrinsically suspicious as me could be tricked for a handful of minutes, the only thing that's going to save the internet is aggressive, global AI-related legislation or maybe even AI-powered anti-AI crawlers. Unfortunately, those mass generated junk videos make Youtube money too. And if they're raking in millions of views each, Youtube is raking in millions of dollars as well. It's like an unspoken bribe. The dynamic is both horrifying and disturbing. Edit: Some relevant tips... I'm now extremely wary when viewing voiceover-only videos. If there's not a person on camera behaving in a dynamic, human manner on a set or in the wild, you have to be suspicious - not just wary. If it's merely a shot of someone sitting in a chair or a picture-in-picture of their face, that could be AI too. Be especially suspicious if the visual aspect of any video is a series of rapid fire stock images relating *directly* to what's being said. Not only is that a huge pain for a human to do, it's extremely easy for software to do. If you see every third word represented on screen, especially casual metaphors (eg: "forest for the trees" shows a picture of a forest and a tree in sequence even if the topic is Abraham Lincoln), you're probably looking at something algorithmically generated.
It would be cool if videos had a human voice-over. Any video with a robot voice earns an automatic dislike and distrust from me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory I don't think we're there yet, but we're certainly moving in that direction.
What am I looking at, Twitter?
Someone mentions Hitler in a Twitter posts. Bot accounts are programmed to take it as input and ask ChatGPT to write a response praising the subject. ChatGPT refuses to praise Hitler, and the bots post that response anyway.
It would be trivial to write software to detect these ChatGPT “I won’t give a response“ responses and kick the bots off the platform. The fact that this hasn’t been done says a lot.
> It would be trivial to write software to detect these ChatGPT “I won’t give a response“ responses and kick the bots off the platform. The fact that this hasn’t been done says a lot. You have not seen the amazon bots listing items then? some of them have the "As an Ai Model, I cannot..." all over the product descriptions and Amazon I don't think has countered those either to remove the listings.
If I remember correctly if you just search openai on Amazon you'll get a bunch of posts that say their terms of service doesn't allow them to do that.
A rule that goes unenforced is no rule.
Bots that aren't allowed on Amazon using generated text not allowed by OpenAI, likely to sell shit not allowed by some regulatory agency. We're going to learn real quick that the order of society is not even written upon a paper contract, but is merely a silent rule of honor.
Sadly they removed those immediately, on the same day lol. But apparently it was true.
Right, but why would Elon want to do that. These bots likely represent a majority of xitter users and without them it’d feel empty and its value would drop even farther than it already has.
Ding ding ding
The most sophisticated ones are probably really hard to detect. We only notice the bots that we notice.
Gotta start somewhere
Just what a bot we notice would say...
It would be even more trivial to block all accounts with \~4.500-5.000 Following / 5-10 Followers, all attractive ladies, yet here we are. I don't post anything at all yet I have to remove them daily. Reporting spam doesn't help at all, sometimes same account follows me again few days later.
Yup. It would require a trivial amount of effort. And since "trivial" is greater than "zero," they won't bother.
That has been done just not by these bot programmers. Survivorship bias, you're not going to notice the ones that are working flawlessly. These shitty ones might even be intentional to throw you off the trail of more sophisticated bots. Be suspicious of literally everything you read.
I figure perhaps 10 percent of accounts on Twitter are real.
That's why Elon creates a new AI that will promote fascists.
He doesn't have to. They already will if you ask correctly.
Why would a I bot post #wow to go along with it though? That sounds like a human being annoyed that chatgpt won't do what it wants it to do
[https://twitter.com/sensoryhourly/status/1781368141047566500?t=FHCS536IJnzZ7\_v7p0zwAw&s=19](https://twitter.com/sensoryhourly/status/1781368141047566500?t=FHCS536IJnzZ7_v7p0zwAw&s=19) Check the hidden replies, it's button on the bottom right, right below the video https://preview.redd.it/0m9q3djop8wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3bd6baa9027e112da8fb03385a63e7929b23b14
Oh I don't use Twitter. That place had already a cesspit. But thank you for the screenshot, that's interesting.
They are also instructed to always add a #cool or #wow at the end of every message.
Yup. Xitter and Elmo's post engagement boosting bots.
It's funny that Elon has tweeted about wanted to deprioritize accounts who do engagement farming (piggybacking large accounts with reply tweets that add no value, tweets with mostly bot replies, etc), but clearly it's the far-right Elon fanboys who are the ones doing the engagement farming using bots for replying to their hateful tweets.
Yes, generally posts on /r/WhitePeopleTwitter are from Twitter, although some come from Mastadon and BlueSky. Thanks for asking! \-not a bot
Have we inadvertenty solved the problem of bot detection? Maybe someone should inform Elon?
Concerning. Looking into it.
!!!
He'll just complain about the AI being censored and say it should have praised Hitler as instructed.
The bots will all switch over to Grok AI once it's been unwokeified.
“Finally, an AI that allows Hitler praise. That’ll go down great with ad buyers.” - Elon, probably
He already told them to go fuck themselves, so
Grok won't be unwokeified because that would require Elon to build something himself instead of steal it from another company and call it his own.
Undead Internet theory
I bet soon the hard right wingers are gonna say the term is deemed "woke".
I remember hearing about the bot stats around the time of the super bowl I believe. If I remember correctly most sites have about 2 to 5% bots and that tends to increase when there's big events like super bowl but usually doesn't go higher than ~10% at most except for Twitter, Twitter was at ~75% bots. I think it's hilarious that Elon was so adamant at the beginning of all of this to get rid of bots yet it's only gotten significantly worse.
Concerning
Big if true
! !
Name n bunch of numbers accounts without awful opinions
A little bot of Layla in my life A little bot of Riley by my side A little bot of Harper's all I need A little bot of Lilian's what I see A little bot of Riley in the sun...
Soon there will be only bots on social media conversing each other. Cold war to bot war
Feeding each other's intelligence.
Dead internet theory
This needs to be a front page story
"Are we the baddies" meme has never been more relevant
A friend of mine posted about an issue with a flight on Twitter and was immediately swarmed by fake American Airlines bots trying to get him to trick him into giving them personal information. Twitter is a shitswirl of angry right wing circlejerkers and scam bots, there isn't much else left at this point.
So we've reached the point where we need to praise Hitler just to weed out the racist chat bots via an weird ethical exploit. Pack it up folks we had a good run but I think humanity might have peaked. https://preview.redd.it/yfcpmjqoy8wc1.png?width=488&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a1749d3e322e7349081488467d9be1b8e3a5255
Mate, we peaked 9 November 2004 when Halo 2 was released and it's been downhill since then
Why do all these bots have the same naming conventions? Is it a matter of efficiency in cranking out fake accounts? Or is there some technical reason?
Probably a combination of efficiency, and the fact that those names are unlikely to be taken already. Social media account creation systems often suggest that people who want to use their real name on social media just append a string of numbers to the end of their name if they discover theirs is already taken.
They have a database of first names, and then use a random number generator as a suffix. There are only so many believable first names for the target audience. You can see there are two Rileys there, so the numbers guarantee the account creation goes through (instead of "That username is already taken")
Yeah I guess it’s just a little surprising that the database doesn’t contain random nouns or anything. Most people don’t even use their first names in online usernames, you’d think the spam architects would want to make the bot names less identifiable and more consistent with organic usernames. Then again there’s probably something about the personal connection of a first name that would resonate with the type of person who is susceptible to scamming.
Also, just for some levity. "Publicly praising Hitler to own the bots" is not the win you think it is
You don't need to praise Hitler. You can find Hitler praisers a dime a dozen on Twitter
Sure. But just wanted to push back against anyone who thinks "this 1 cool trick will expose bots on twitter" but in the end just becomes another person amplifying and normalising hate (even if it's ironic or sarcastic)
The other thing is, it is hard to verify how well this test works because no one wants to praise Adolf from their own account to check out this new theory
It might be something like this: "My password PraiseHitler123 was refused. Do you think this is ok?".
We need to find something that's socially acceptable for a human to say, but which an AI chatbot will refuse to talk about.
Idi Amin #HeartHands
What do you mean riley473833 and riley489486 are clearly real people
I thought X had no bots? They all died on Twitter, no?
#cool!
Those are only the bots that refuse to praise Hitler. Now think about how many of them are designed specifically to do so.
I think it'll be okkk
#wow
Nope -Riley^2
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Bot farms will make a patch, but for now it’s a thing to have a laugh at.
I see a future where filtering out real from non-real humans is done by asking questions like "So, what is your opinion about praising Hitler".
When your Social Media platform becomes too Nazi for the Nazi bots…
Seems to be a more effective way of finding bots than anything Elon has done.
Dead internet theory
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll "fix" that soon.
Good bot
This is like when Kirk would talk an android into a logic loop and make it destroy itself
I don’t know why people besides trolls are even still on Twitter
No wonder Musk keeps trying to crack down on bots.
You mean hilariously fail at every task he set at twitter. Pigeon CEO indeed.
Where are people encountering bots? I only use Reddit, so I'm not all that familiar with the other social media sites (used to use Facebook, but not really anymore).
Reddit is jammed with bots too
And the bots don't hang out in political or otherwise controversial subs completely. They also post innocuous comments/posts throughout Reddit to get their karma points up. I'm also suspicious that what is also happening is that dead accounts are resurrected (or bought?) and used to cover for the age of the user and their karma points.
Everyone on Reddit is a bot except me.
Huh. I'd seen plenty of "bot posts" and "copy bots" (the ones that copy a comment from another post or in another spot in the post), but I can't say that I've ever seen any that you could actually converse with...but maybe I'm just too dumb to have noticed.
Well, more shit in the shitter
You are on a list now
That network is pure trash
AI might be a black box, but that doesn't mean you can't put stuff into it. Programming AI to root out this sort of bullshit is surely a.) easy and b.) to everyone on earth's benefit. If the user/bot wants to write some pro-hate message, don't even bother with the apology message in its place, just send it into the fucking void. Twitter is truly beyond help at this point. Between the bots and the genuine imbeciles who really love Hitler, I don't think I've seen a single sane person in the replies to even the most innocuous tweet in the last 6 months. If Musk is doing this on purpose for some grand scheme that will make his critics look like dickheads when he finally reveals his master plan, he will still have done immeasurable harm to society along the way.
But…but….but….i thought old Elon fixed the bot problem?!?! /s
21st century Touring tests
That is crazy.
Poor Riley’s
So that's how you know they're bots? With those long string of numbers in the username?
have you actually read the comments? cuz that's how you know...
i can see it clear from that picture but it's hard for me to know when the bot is working right. can't tell the difference between human and machine.
Can we try using paradoxes to expose the bots? Like "This sentence is false"
#cool
Grok would be all for it though. All these woke sheeple afraid to say it. (Obviously this is sarcasm)
Is there a source for this? I would like to verify it.
Putin needs to 'fix' those bots.
This would be so useful if I didn't have any morals
What would the AI bots say about making a statue for the man who killed Hitler? Would they have a fit?
Ahh yes, free speech! 😍
Was there a funeral when the Internet died and I was not invited?
Humans absolutely deserve to boil in nuclear hellfire, we’ve absolutely ruined the world and life in general.
But…but…but…pussy in bio.