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Obliterating his reputation? Have you not seen the changes he has forced on twitter? For example after the purchase announcement a bunch of politically correct
by neets 4y ago
Obliterating his reputation? Have you not seen the changes he has forced on twitter? For example after the purchase announcement a bunch of politically correct twitter users lost a sizable number of followers and politically incorrect users gained sizable number of followers.[1] Likely having to do with the bot problem.
Seeing the headlines and social blade stats mentioned in [1] reminded me of veritasium video about facebook fraud (bots).[2] This video demonstrates just how easy it was to buy fake likes on facebook. Doing some basic research shows that buying twitter followers is pretty cheap. After doing some basic analytics the creator finds where the bot accounts are very likely from. Looking at the same engagement statistics of political figures shows some pretty interesting results.
But then things get interesting when you take Dead Internet Theory into account.[3] Elon has made it pretty clear that he views AI as a possible existential threat to humanity and if the majority of the internet is indeed fake accounts managed by a minority manipulating the masses something ought to be done and nobody is talking about it. Elon seem to be trying to fix humanities sense making apparatus.
1. https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2022/04/27/progressive-twitter-accounts-lose-followers-conservatives-gain https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2022/04/27/progres...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28813746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28813746
- rchaud 4y ago> Elon seem to be trying to fix humanities sense making apparatus. Remarkable that this is what you are taking away from this fiasco.