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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (20 children)

My corner of Twitter seems to have been left relatively untouched. 99% porn and 1% cat videos.

I do get a ton bot followers but when I browse my follow list there's hardly any there so I guess those accounts do get removed relatively quickly but new ones just keeps popping up. It's nothing but whack-a-mole on twitter's part.

One thing I never quite understood are all of the seemingly real people using their personal accounts to follow me and like my posts. When I open their profile it's often some right-wing person for example who posts a ton of political news articles and such but when I open their follow list it's full of accounts like mine that post mainly gay porn. Don't these people realize that anyone can see who they follow and that their likes are often displayed to their friends aswell? You'd think they had alt-accounts for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Those followers (or anccount) were either purchased, or they gained followers via follow back posts.

Theres groups of people that do this all day long, they post lists of users(which are also mixed with bot accounts) of people who follow back. You add them, they add you. Rinse repeat til your looking at a few thousand followers.

Then you cull your following list by removing a ton of em.

Now you’re left with thousands of followers(junk, bots, spam accounts) and a few following.

Yes, your gay porn accounts are likely automated post bots.

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