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   Tingo (fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 20:16:03 JST Tingo

   Met a fascinating pair of IT students last night whose hobby is creating fake people, millions of them. Fuck, billions for all I know. The fake people, not the IT students

   So, they've automated a 'primitive ai' (their words) to randomly generate people and sign them up to everything! All the socials and rewards programs, anything that thirsts for personal data. They don't post or use their skills for evil (I fucking would), they just want to collapse the system

   'We're going to push enough shit data everything becomes worthless

   'Our hypothesis is it already is. Most popular SM? Insta. Even the "real" people are fake

   'So for a donation of $20 you can fund 85k new fake people with which we'll further clog this absolute bullshit.'

   Sign me up, kids

   (And yes, I'm aware they probably blew that cash on weed but the concept is solid and they should be rewarded for it)

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     Marc (marc@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:41 JST Marc

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     *spent that $20 on weed

     > even the real people on Instagram are fake.

     Lmao

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     fedithom (fedithom@social.saarland)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:47 JST fedithom

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     • Leonard Ritter

     @lritter @fixatedpersonsunit no. The reason for that is 'boundless (tech) corporate greed'. Those kids have nothing to do with it.

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     Leonard Ritter (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:48 JST Leonard Ritter

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     @fixatedpersonsunit so they are the reason why web DRM is a thing now

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     tychosoft (tychosoft@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:50 JST tychosoft

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     • Leonard Ritter

     @fedithom @lritter @fixatedpersonsunit "we would have gotten away with the internet, too, if not for those meddling kids and their bots"

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     tychosoft (tychosoft@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:52 JST tychosoft

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     • James Ivan

     @Jamesivan96 @fixatedpersonsunit they are just pen testing social media as a whole by fuzzing ;)

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     James Ivan (jamesivan96@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:54 JST James Ivan

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     @fixatedpersonsunit so they think that the way to fix a broken system is by throwing even more bullshit into it and possibly push the system to its breaking point? This is the wrong way. Surely, These tech geniuses can come up with a better solution.

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     Steffi (stefanie@social.anoxinon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:12:56 JST Steffi

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     @fixatedpersonsunit we need a lot more of this. It needs to be everywhere, and public. Make it a distributed network that automatically floods any ad riddled social media with fake accounts. Take data for the fake accounts from real public accounts, just randomly mix the data points to avoid detectable patterns.

     If advertisers have to take into account that 50% of accounts could be fake, they won't pay for that and there will be less ads.

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     James Ivan (jamesivan96@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 23:13:15 JST James Ivan

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     • tychosoft

     @tychosoft @fixatedpersonsunit I understand. It just seems counterintuitive to have tech geniuses doing this instead of trying to fix the system or creating a new properly functioning system.

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     Tingo (fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 21:10:25 JST Tingo

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     OK, found them (more accurately, they found me) and it didn't go well

     'You splashed us all over Mastodon.'

     'Not intentionally. No wait, it was intentional. Was drunk. You bought the second beer!'

     'And they like us?'

     'Read the feed. They fucking love you. Make a business out of that shit.'

     'A business predicated on ruining our own industry.'

     'Exactly.'

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     Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen (angryant@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 21:10:27 JST Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen

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     @fixatedpersonsunit The worries in this thread about a future with an internet filled with construct identities are quite interesting.

     Treating misinformation campaigns separately, what would be so bad about such a future?

     If your interaction is meaningful then what do you care?

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