More links to what I had found to follow.
Reason for ban "evasion".
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This makes the most sense. If it is "mostly" AI bots, then any expression given there should also have the understanding that there may not be any good conversation take up for days. Looking around the nets at other forums, the trend is the same regardless if there are bots conversing.
Then I have this thought, what if people are not walking away from the net, but many that were on the net can no longer afford to be there. COuld be a reason why we see less organic statements, and more scripted statements.
I don't think it's mostly AI bots. I think they are groups of people to mange large numbers of accounts and cooperate with others on their team.
Do you think it more than 200 people?
Absolutely! Military psychological operations, intelligence agencies, former military, public relations firms, political parties, politically active groups, volunteers and more. Every major country.
I've seen people doing this on tiny IRC chats, gaming forums, private bittorrent tracker forums and chatrooms, comments sections any just about any other kind of forum. This has been going on for years and they weren't AI.
I read proof of this in software products to assist groups of people brigade news articles that contained certain keywords. The software would monitor various outlets and then alert everyone on the team (hundreds or thousands of people per issue) that a story relevant to their cause was new. They would then work together to try and shape public opinion on it when it was getting lots of views.
That information is now omitted from search engine results (otherwise I would show you), even though the software today is more prevalent and has more features than before.
I could point you to 3 software suits I know of. They were given to reddit some years back, but are no longer being publicly advertised here on reddit like they were during r\subredditsimulator days.