I’m definitely noticing search results that are like 30 paragraphs on a question like “how do you switch off Cortana”. Either it’s someone’s job to write these or it’s all AI generated. Both...
I’m definitely noticing search results that are like 30 paragraphs on a question like “how do you switch off Cortana”. Either it’s someone’s job to write these or it’s all AI generated. Both sucks. Ironically, I’m starting to just ask chatbots since they at least give single-sentence answers to simple questions.
What you don't believe the three-paragraph essay on why this Bic pen knockoff changed the reviewer's life and is the greatest thing that has ever happened to them?
What you don't believe the three-paragraph essay on why this Bic pen knockoff changed the reviewer's life and is the greatest thing that has ever happened to them?
It might have been a conspiracy theory in 2016 but the internet has been trending in this direction for a while. Reddit has a huge bot problem, many searches return generated SEO spam, and we're...
It might have been a conspiracy theory in 2016 but the internet has been trending in this direction for a while. Reddit has a huge bot problem, many searches return generated SEO spam, and we're even seeing AI influencers and models on various platforms.
It's true, but Twitter's 80% is exceptional. It kind of reminds me of "The Right Stuff", a dating app for right-wingers, where I hear no woman registered, so it ended up a sausage fest.
It's true, but Twitter's 80% is exceptional. It kind of reminds me of "The Right Stuff", a dating app for right-wingers, where I hear no woman registered, so it ended up a sausage fest.
So the question in my mind is, is that the simple result of verifying anyone who will pay $8, or is Twitter deliberately botting to inflate their numbers and lure users back to the site?
So the question in my mind is, is that the simple result of verifying anyone who will pay $8, or is Twitter deliberately botting to inflate their numbers and lure users back to the site?
I mean, you can still use the site just fine without being verified or paying Elon anything. And bots certainly seem to do just fine as well. During the holidays I was getting 1-2 bot followers...
I mean, you can still use the site just fine without being verified or paying Elon anything. And bots certainly seem to do just fine as well. During the holidays I was getting 1-2 bot followers per day. They’re extremely easy to detect because the pfp is always some supermodel looking woman with a handle that looks like “@ jessicah3738292738” and a single post that reads like it was generated by GPT-1 if GPT-1 spent the previous night out drinking.
Twitter no longer seems to do any kind of quality control on its user base and remove accounts like this anymore, nor does Twitter really do any kind of moderation against accounts unless they upset daddy Elon. In effect, bot accounts are operating with impunity. It was never remotely like this before the buyout either, I think before Elon took over I got a single digit number of accounts over the span of 2 years that I was suspicious of, and that was it.
I would argue it was not "his major thing". It was a talking point he used to try and make himself popular, after he was forced to purchase Twitter. He was never honest about trying to improve...
I would argue it was not "his major thing". It was a talking point he used to try and make himself popular, after he was forced to purchase Twitter. He was never honest about trying to improve Twitter, because he was never honest about actually wanting to buy it in the first place.
At no point did he want to buy Twitter, they just called his bluff and held him to the stupid shit he spouts.
And right now Musk is trying so, so hard to kill Twitter, hence why the changes he has made of will make. From the name change, charging money for the blue checkmark and other things that I don't...
And right now Musk is trying so, so hard to kill Twitter, hence why the changes he has made of will make. From the name change, charging money for the blue checkmark and other things that I don't remember. To him, Twitter is something that is a drag, because of the fact he was forced to buy it in the end of him making noise of buying it and "fixing" it.
I find myself in the group of people constantly flip flopping on whether I believe he’s completely incompetent or just playing some kind of game. I don’t see any other option really. Either he’s...
I find myself in the group of people constantly flip flopping on whether I believe he’s completely incompetent or just playing some kind of game. I don’t see any other option really.
Either he’s just this dumb and thought that firing most of his security staff and content moderation staff, alongside most of the people who actually understood how the site works, wouldn’t increase bot accounts? Or this is just a means to prove something to his investors. Something along the lines of ”see, this is why the whole site needs to go private” or ”this is why the site was doomed to fail, so you can’t blame me, k thanks byeee”
No flip-flopping for me. I’ve said since day one that he’s there to destroy it. He’s from international generational wealth. I’ve been pasting links from Wikipedia about the number of social...
No flip-flopping for me. I’ve said since day one that he’s there to destroy it.
He’s from international generational wealth. I’ve been pasting links from Wikipedia about the number of social democratic upheavals that started on Twitter (look up Color Revolutions).
I know it sounds a bit tinfoil-hat, but I come from the generation of people that believed - and I still believe - the internet was going to make a better world. And I do think it has in many ways.
But I also think there has been a generation-long intentional neglect of and amplification of the worst parts of it. The intent being to protect the ruling class. No more color revolutions. No more Wikileaks, no more Edward Snowdens, no more Panama Papers. It’s an assault on information integrity via drowning.
And the importance and power Twitter was giving to people to organize and signal boost injustices from entrenched power couldn’t be tolerated anymore. EM is just pulling from the Donald Trump playbook- chaotic press and lots of noise to get to an end result of either no Twitter, or one with a manageable signal-to-noise ratio such that his friends in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Russia, the US, or wherever don’t have to worry about their shadier dealings getting public scrutiny.
Facebook is ridiculous with the amount of bots lately. Go click on any WashingtonPost or NYT article and you'll see a ton of crypto scammers. My local buy or sell anything group was taken over by...
Facebook is ridiculous with the amount of bots lately. Go click on any WashingtonPost or NYT article and you'll see a ton of crypto scammers.
My local buy or sell anything group was taken over by some dude from Vietnam and has been overrun with bots that post the same message. "I need people to work for [Company]. Paying $37 per hour from home" then links to a sketchy Google site.
I have reported hundreds of things in Facebook and I don't think I've ever gotten a positive response back about them taking action, but I get a ton of negative messages back saying "we've investigated and found this doesn't go against our rules".
The Dead Internet theory people are becoming right...
I’m definitely noticing search results that are like 30 paragraphs on a question like “how do you switch off Cortana”. Either it’s someone’s job to write these or it’s all AI generated. Both sucks. Ironically, I’m starting to just ask chatbots since they at least give single-sentence answers to simple questions.
What you don't believe the three-paragraph essay on why this Bic pen knockoff changed the reviewer's life and is the greatest thing that has ever happened to them?
It might have been a conspiracy theory in 2016 but the internet has been trending in this direction for a while. Reddit has a huge bot problem, many searches return generated SEO spam, and we're even seeing AI influencers and models on various platforms.
It's true, but Twitter's 80% is exceptional. It kind of reminds me of "The Right Stuff", a dating app for right-wingers, where I hear no woman registered, so it ended up a sausage fest.
So the question in my mind is, is that the simple result of verifying anyone who will pay $8, or is Twitter deliberately botting to inflate their numbers and lure users back to the site?
I mean, you can still use the site just fine without being verified or paying Elon anything. And bots certainly seem to do just fine as well. During the holidays I was getting 1-2 bot followers per day. They’re extremely easy to detect because the pfp is always some supermodel looking woman with a handle that looks like “@ jessicah3738292738” and a single post that reads like it was generated by GPT-1 if GPT-1 spent the previous night out drinking.
Twitter no longer seems to do any kind of quality control on its user base and remove accounts like this anymore, nor does Twitter really do any kind of moderation against accounts unless they upset daddy Elon. In effect, bot accounts are operating with impunity. It was never remotely like this before the buyout either, I think before Elon took over I got a single digit number of accounts over the span of 2 years that I was suspicious of, and that was it.
Didn’t Elon Musk claim “getting rid of bots” was his primary goal in order to fix twitter?
Elon Musk claims a lot of things. Most of them aren't true.
He's an asshole, to make that clear, but this was like, his major thing: Get rid of the bots!
I would argue it was not "his major thing". It was a talking point he used to try and make himself popular, after he was forced to purchase Twitter. He was never honest about trying to improve Twitter, because he was never honest about actually wanting to buy it in the first place.
At no point did he want to buy Twitter, they just called his bluff and held him to the stupid shit he spouts.
And right now Musk is trying so, so hard to kill Twitter, hence why the changes he has made of will make. From the name change, charging money for the blue checkmark and other things that I don't remember. To him, Twitter is something that is a drag, because of the fact he was forced to buy it in the end of him making noise of buying it and "fixing" it.
He may be killing it, but he's also addicted to tweeting
Except he needs those bots to boost his active user count to try to make the whole shitshow look more valuable.
I find myself in the group of people constantly flip flopping on whether I believe he’s completely incompetent or just playing some kind of game. I don’t see any other option really.
Either he’s just this dumb and thought that firing most of his security staff and content moderation staff, alongside most of the people who actually understood how the site works, wouldn’t increase bot accounts? Or this is just a means to prove something to his investors. Something along the lines of ”see, this is why the whole site needs to go private” or ”this is why the site was doomed to fail, so you can’t blame me, k thanks byeee”
No flip-flopping for me. I’ve said since day one that he’s there to destroy it.
He’s from international generational wealth. I’ve been pasting links from Wikipedia about the number of social democratic upheavals that started on Twitter (look up Color Revolutions).
I know it sounds a bit tinfoil-hat, but I come from the generation of people that believed - and I still believe - the internet was going to make a better world. And I do think it has in many ways.
But I also think there has been a generation-long intentional neglect of and amplification of the worst parts of it. The intent being to protect the ruling class. No more color revolutions. No more Wikileaks, no more Edward Snowdens, no more Panama Papers. It’s an assault on information integrity via drowning.
And the importance and power Twitter was giving to people to organize and signal boost injustices from entrenched power couldn’t be tolerated anymore. EM is just pulling from the Donald Trump playbook- chaotic press and lots of noise to get to an end result of either no Twitter, or one with a manageable signal-to-noise ratio such that his friends in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Russia, the US, or wherever don’t have to worry about their shadier dealings getting public scrutiny.
Facebook is ridiculous with the amount of bots lately. Go click on any WashingtonPost or NYT article and you'll see a ton of crypto scammers.
My local buy or sell anything group was taken over by some dude from Vietnam and has been overrun with bots that post the same message. "I need people to work for [Company]. Paying $37 per hour from home" then links to a sketchy Google site.
I have reported hundreds of things in Facebook and I don't think I've ever gotten a positive response back about them taking action, but I get a ton of negative messages back saying "we've investigated and found this doesn't go against our rules".
The internet is in a post enshitification world.
I will be very interested to hear how the massive advertising fraud plays out.