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> Everyone knows twitter is majority bots, gpt influence accounts You are writing fan-fiction, not making an argument.

godmode2019 4y ago
Most of social media is PR companies running bot farms, this has been the case for many years. Especially around African elections (well studied) or large social issues ( Johnny deep court case ) My country is notability bad they close the comment section so real accounts can't out comment the bot accounts, our government has social media influence programmers running this, people I know. ( small country ) They use gpt 2 to generate around 100 curated comments for each news article, You can typically tell by going into their account and seeing when they joined and friend count ect. However recently they started hiring normal people to comment. This has been the PR industry for at least 4 years.
- jungle2jungle 4y ago
  You have provided no evidence.
  - godmode2019 4y ago
    https://www.skynettoday.com/overviews/misinfo https://www.skynettoday.com/overviews/misinfo "There has been a 150% increase in countries using organised social media manipulation campaigns over the last two years." [University of Oxford] https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/amber-heard-twitter-support-is-largely-from-fake-and-inauthentic-accounts/ https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/amber-heard-... "A new survey has proved a large number of Amber Heard's Twitter support is coming from "fake" accounts." https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/large-percentage-of-amber-heard-twitter-support-is-from-fake-accounts/news-story/e40a331810becf515a6e1de7bf3d0474 https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/large-p... "Nearly 11 per cent of all Twitter accounts participating in discourse surrounding Johnny Depp's defamation trial" https://democracyinafrica.org/cambridge-analytica-africa-know/ https://democracyinafrica.org/cambridge-analytica-africa-kno... https://m.dw.com/en/dictators-in-africa-using-social-media-to-cling-to-power/a-60360543 https://m.dw.com/en/dictators-in-africa-using-social-media-t...
godmode2019 4y ago
Their was a guy on here a few weeks ago that made 10% of all comments on 4chan using three bot accounts over the span of a month, running gpt-j fine tuned. You need so remarkably few people/PR agencies to outnumber active humans. Its such a problem creating a social media account is actually quite hard, often you need a phone number and a separate IP address.
- jungle2jungle 4y ago
  You have provided no evidence.
  - godmode2019 4y ago
    https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-find-ai-powered-social-media-bots-on-platforms-such-as-twitter-that-promote-unhealthy-behaviour-4270073.html https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-fin... Honestly this is such a common thing in PR it's silly posting more examples, for social issues and elections most content is bots. The only thing new is gpt which allows huge scale. Where groups like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party No longer have to hire people to make comments they can just shotgun influence with GPT type language models. This video is has pretty good sources https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0TrA8oXXo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0TrA8oXXo It only talks about politics, but the same campaigns exist for other topics like reputation management and social issues.
    - jungle2jungle 4y ago
      > https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-find-ai-powered-social-media-bots-on-platforms-such-as-twitter-that-promote-unhealthy-behaviour-4270073.html https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-fin... This doesn't say anything about the concentration or percentage of bots on Twitter. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party Neither does this. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Xl0TrA8oXXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Xl0TrA8oXXo Nor this. Nobody said bots aren't on twitter. What's under discussion is whether or not the bots make up a large percentage of users on twitter. > Honestly this is such a common thing in PR it's silly posting more examples That's kind of hand-wavey. I'd appreciate more examples.

godmode2019 4y ago

Most of social media is PR companies running bot farms, this has been the case for many years. Especially around African elections (well studied) or large social issues ( Johnny deep court case ) My country is notability bad they close the comment section so real accounts can't out comment the bot accounts, our government has social media influence programmers running this, people I know. ( small country ) They use gpt 2 to generate around 100 curated comments for each news article, You can typically tell by going into their account and seeing when they joined and friend count ect. However recently they started hiring normal people to comment. This has been the PR industry for at least 4 years.

jungle2jungle 4y ago
You have provided no evidence.
- godmode2019 4y ago
  https://www.skynettoday.com/overviews/misinfo https://www.skynettoday.com/overviews/misinfo "There has been a 150% increase in countries using organised social media manipulation campaigns over the last two years." [University of Oxford] https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/amber-heard-twitter-support-is-largely-from-fake-and-inauthentic-accounts/ https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/amber-heard-... "A new survey has proved a large number of Amber Heard's Twitter support is coming from "fake" accounts." https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/large-percentage-of-amber-heard-twitter-support-is-from-fake-accounts/news-story/e40a331810becf515a6e1de7bf3d0474 https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/large-p... "Nearly 11 per cent of all Twitter accounts participating in discourse surrounding Johnny Depp's defamation trial" https://democracyinafrica.org/cambridge-analytica-africa-know/ https://democracyinafrica.org/cambridge-analytica-africa-kno... https://m.dw.com/en/dictators-in-africa-using-social-media-to-cling-to-power/a-60360543 https://m.dw.com/en/dictators-in-africa-using-social-media-t...

godmode2019 4y ago

Their was a guy on here a few weeks ago that made 10% of all comments on 4chan using three bot accounts over the span of a month, running gpt-j fine tuned. You need so remarkably few people/PR agencies to outnumber active humans. Its such a problem creating a social media account is actually quite hard, often you need a phone number and a separate IP address.

jungle2jungle 4y ago
You have provided no evidence.
- godmode2019 4y ago
  https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-find-ai-powered-social-media-bots-on-platforms-such-as-twitter-that-promote-unhealthy-behaviour-4270073.html https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-fin... Honestly this is such a common thing in PR it's silly posting more examples, for social issues and elections most content is bots. The only thing new is gpt which allows huge scale. Where groups like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party No longer have to hire people to make comments they can just shotgun influence with GPT type language models. This video is has pretty good sources https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0TrA8oXXo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0TrA8oXXo It only talks about politics, but the same campaigns exist for other topics like reputation management and social issues.
  - jungle2jungle 4y ago
    > https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-find-ai-powered-social-media-bots-on-platforms-such-as-twitter-that-promote-unhealthy-behaviour-4270073.html https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-fin... This doesn't say anything about the concentration or percentage of bots on Twitter. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party Neither does this. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Xl0TrA8oXXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Xl0TrA8oXXo Nor this. Nobody said bots aren't on twitter. What's under discussion is whether or not the bots make up a large percentage of users on twitter. > Honestly this is such a common thing in PR it's silly posting more examples That's kind of hand-wavey. I'd appreciate more examples.