• crowsby@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Spam bots pursuing an audience shouldn’t be a surprising thing. Even glorious fediverse valhalla is battling with them.

    The difference between the Threads & Twitter situations is that I’m inclined to extend a lot more leeway to an engineering team that’s less than two weeks into a new platform, versus one that’s been around nearly two decades and is suddenly dealing with issues because the owner decided to haphazardly fire the teams responsible for maintaining those areas.

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    1 year ago

    Who actually manages to look at 10,000 tweets a day like holy shit do these people do nothing but scroll Twitter for 24 hours a day?

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    Why is it that I immediately assume at least a sizable amount of chatbots on threads were either created, directed, or funded by Elon and his financiers.

    Of course there are going to be chat bots swarming any social media/platform with enough real participants, but it’s not like Meta is new to social media and I would assume Meta has sophisticated detection systems available to them for exactly this type of thing (and probably has their own chatbots and a bot whitelist)

    Maybe the chatbot AI revolution will make social media unusable.

    Either way, I would be shocked if chatbots could exist on either platform in a meaningful way if Meta/Twitter actually put reasonable efforts into ensuring all content was generated and shared by real people.

    I’m saying this without a clue how anything actually works, don’t take my crackpot theories too seriously

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    If you build it, bots will come. 'Twas inevitably a more pressing concern when you suddenly have 30 mil+ signups in less than 2 weeks.

    Hopefully our admin communities will handle our bot waves strongly.

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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if one day it comes out that these spam bots are paid for by competitors