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   John Scott-Railton ☕ (jsrailton@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 07:29:14 JST John Scott-Railton ☕

   • Chris Mohney

   #Twitter 's #AI #bot problem:

   Pic 1: #spam account posts likely AI-generated *description* of an image without the image.

   Pics 2-4
   Swarms of blue-check verified bots reply with equally generated replies complimenting the nonexistent image.

   #LLM #elonmusk
   h/t @chrismohney

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:21:18 JST Eaton

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     • Bernie Forcefully Does It
     • roque (ロク)
     • Chris Mohney

     @roque @jsrailton @chrismohney @BernieDoesIt Huh. That’s right around the time the *chan scene started mass producing minority identity accounts on various platforms and playing with ops like EndFathersDay etc, the precursors to gamergate. Wonder if there’s any direct connection.

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     roque (ロク) (roque@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 02:21:19 JST roque (ロク)

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     • Chris Mohney

     @jsrailton @chrismohney There are a massive number of these “POC” bots, mostly created in 2011 and 2012. For every one that gets suspended (as the blue checks in the screenshots did), there are ten siblings or more.

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     John Scott-Railton ☕ (jsrailton@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 03:57:00 JST John Scott-Railton ☕

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     • Chris Mohney

     Just zombies responding to zombies. I love @chrismohney 's take.

     And when you do read a real popular post, it's loaded with blue check accounts gumming up any possibility of actual conversation.

     Recall the original argument: monthly payment would price-out bots.

     But think for a second about the perverse incentive for a platform struggling with revenue targets:

     OK, so they are bots, but do we really want to proactively find & cull large swaths of paying accounts?

     #Twitter #AI #bot

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