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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] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what's the business plan for these bots anyways

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Farm followers to look like a legit user -> sell account -> it is used to advertise or push agendas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Pretend to be users so you can claim to have users so you can make money on the gamble market so you can be rich.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Long game state sponsored shit probably