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”.

  • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • ArxCyberwolf
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      171 year ago

      You expected right wingers to actually think, that’s the problem right there.

      • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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        -131 year ago

        Right wingers are exactly the same people as you and me. They just were born into different family in a different part of the world with different culture. You’re not superior to them only because you think differently - just luckier to have grown around different people.

        • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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          71 year ago

          though enviormental (as in what’s around them, not just plants) effects on one’s up bringing cannot be overlooked - there’s many, many people, who grew up in conservative and or right wing families or even countries, and yet they questioned their norm and outgrew it

          • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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            -21 year ago

            And some people drop out of medical school in London to go fight for ISIS. People are strange and others are drawn towards ideas others aren’t for no fault of their own.

              • @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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                21 year ago

                I don’t think it’s that simple. Why is for example the majority religion in the US Christianity but in the middle east it’s Islam? Do people just freely happen to choose the same religion as everyone else around there or is there perhaps outside influences that the individual have no say at?

                • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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                  11 year ago

                  as I said, environmental factors of one’s upbringing are indeed significant influence on an individuals life.

                  But I do not accept some sort of twisted “nobody is accountable for their beliefs uwu nobody has a choice in what they think or do owo”