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M Y P U S S Y I N B I O I gave Musk a lot of leeway on this for taking over right as open-source LLMs started ~passing the turing test, but that they can't eve
by comeonbro 3y ago
M Y P U S S Y I N B I O
I gave Musk a lot of leeway on this for taking over right as open-source LLMs started ~passing the turing test, but that they can't even stop this is eating most of it.
- refulgentis 3y agoThere's so many weird things about that specific abuse. The frequency...the inability to stop it after 2 months... The weirdest thing is they seem to get some special treatment that renders them invisible, yet, not prevent them from being posted altogether, or have any impact on the account itself. It's not even particularly productive spam. It's like watching someone thumb their noise in front of a steamroller. Makes no sense.
- detourdog 3y agoAll of that plus the original intention was to buy twitter and stop the bots.
- solardev 3y ago...was that really his original intention...
- pavlov 3y ago“Stop the bots” was a made-up rationale when he wanted out of the deal. The original intention was to buy Twitter so Musk would be the most popular man in the world, his comedy would be appreciated by a billion followers soon, and as a nice bonus they’d buy whatever crypto he decided to pump. The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic.
- solardev 3y ago> The Twitter buyout was maybe the very last major business decision executed entirely on 2021 moon logic. You know, a part of me hopes he makes it to Mars in my lifetime and just proceeds to take over the planet, running an alternative society there. Planet Musk: The Reality Show™ would be quite the thing to watch... from 140 million miles away.
- babypuncher 3y agoI feel like this is how we get a much dumber version of the MCR from The Expanse. Like, they wouldn't be justifying their weird space fascism as a means to terraform Mars, it would all just be one big joke to fuel Musk's ego, and somehow a bunch of people end up being stupid enough to buy into it.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI was thinking it would be sort of Martian Time Slip, only just Elon Musk instead of Ernie Kott all the time.
- rsynnott 3y agoIn the past few years, I’ve read at least two sci-fi novels (an Alastair Reynolds one and one other, maybe Ken MacLeod) which made passing reference to a failed Musk Mars base. Seems to be a popular idea.
- 15457345234 3y ago> Alastair Reynolds I always did wonder if the Musk Dogs species from Pushing Ice - who trick the colonists into blowing up their planet or something along those lines - was a vague dig at Musk...
- refulgentis 3y agoLol @ the Twitter purchase being a "jump the shark" moment for the gogo COVID era Lol'ing at its accuracy, and it being obvious once you hear it, but something that didn't cross my mind until now. Even the constant rolling firings at BigCos: I find it hard to believe companies would have cut as quickly and aggressively and continually as they did without Musk's...housecleaning?...making them look reasonable in comparison.
- Karellen 3y ago> they’d buy whatever crypto [Musk] decided to pump. For a moment, I'd forgotten that was a thing Musk actually did. I got so used to bots impersonating him pumping cryptocurrencies, my memories had rewritten the times he did do it himself into more impersonators doing it instead.
- rsynnott 3y agoAnd if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
- kevingadd 3y agoTo me the weirdest part is that all the bots I see have blue checkmarks. How does it make sense for the bot operators to pay money to run their bots? Are they using stolen credit cards?
- spamizbad 3y agoJust the cost of doing business. They make more than enough to afford $7/month.
- codetrotter 3y ago> They make more than enough to afford $7/month. Sure. But I would expect bot operators to have a vast array of accounts. If you have 250,000 accounts and you paid for a blue checkmark for 10,000 of those accounts. That would be $70,000 per month.
- unshavedyak 3y agoIt's more a question on how much they make per account though, right? It's either above or below the profit line on average. Or they've found a way to reduce costs, like stolen cards or owning Twitter (hah).
- codetrotter 3y ago> a question on how much they make per account though, right? Idk, but intuitively I would think that the profits they get are spread over a great number of accounts. If 98% of your spam earned income comes from a single account, that would make you very vulnerable to losing all of your income if that single account is banned. If on the other hand, 80% of your income comes from 10,000 accounts then it doesn’t matter if 1 or 10 or 100 or 1,000 of those accounts get banned. You’ll still have the income from the remaining 9,999 or 9,990 or 9,900 or 9,000 accounts. And you’ll make a bunch of new accounts all the time so that for all of those account of yours that are banned it’s not really significantly reducing the total number of accounts under your control either. Of course, I could be wrong and it could be that they have a handful of accounts that make all of the income and all of the other accounts only serve to fake engagement for those few accounts so that those few accounts get boosted and seen by people. I’m not in the spam making “business” so I don’t know how it actually works.
- MSFT_Edging 3y agoThe paid blue checks basically created a bot-engagement tier. for $8/mo you can protect your account from getting banned(profit motive to retain paid checks) AND get your spam to the top of every post.
- input_sh 3y agoAND now you get paid for views, so just have your bot account post a random stolen video and spam it under every single post that goes anywhere near viral. Boom, easy money.
- jsheard 3y agoI saw an account with a $1000 gold checkmark impersonating a genuine goldcheck account to promote a crypto scam, that's the deluxe spam boosting package.
- stefan_ 3y agoAnd they don't even spam! Instead its just endless ChatGPT drivel and noise. In a way that's even worse.
- jsheard 3y agoI'm guessing the white noise GPT posts are to "warm up" accounts before they start spamming links, to get around spam detection heuristics.
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- solardev 3y agoMan, even that's a scam. All I wanted was cat videos, but it keeps showing me undressed humans :(
- paulddraper 3y agoTeases all of them
- jacquesm 3y agoMaybe youtube then? I mean, you need your fix, right?
- pfdietz 3y agoYou can get unlimited iterations of hydrogen peroxide ED scams.
- martin8412 3y agoSo I just need some fake ED pills and some nail polish remover to build an explosive(TATP)?
- goles 3y agoYou joke (perhaps) but I've noticed Youtube recommendations now occasionally serves low engagement videos which oddly works great for cat videos. I regularly get 100-200 view, 10-60 second cat videos alongside long form content. If you need some training "data" try Cookie the Calico.
- jacquesm 3y agoI have installed plug-ins that totally strip all recommendations, shorts and other stuff from youtube to the point where it only displays the one video that I was interested in. This probably saved me more hours than I care to admit. 'unhook' and 'hide youtube shorts' are the main ingredients.
- subjectsigma 3y ago
- jeffbee 3y agoThe like/follow spams come milliseconds after a post, which any anti-abuse intern could figure out how to block.