Look into The Internet is Dead theory. The internet we knew in the 90’s and early 2000’s is gone, most of the traffic and responses now are AI bots. YouTube itself admitted it was worried about the Inversion back in 2013. The Inversion being when bot traffic is more than human traffic, that human traffic becomes the blocked and censored part and only artificial conversation is on the site. This was 8 years ago, there’s no way that shift hasn’t happened there and in other spaces.
Much as I love the internet for its uses and information, the only way to be sure you’re talking to a human and getting through to them is to be looking them in the eye, with your hand on your EDC if need be for full effect.
It is definitely apparent that the majority of conversations online are short lived and rarely build community quite like they used to.
Bots spam and ruin good conversations and then sow doubt and morale problems to boot which don't affect the bots, but do affect the people.
Bots have purposes tho - so knowing the purpose is half the battle. Bots designed to link farm for example act a different way than those AI speech bots.
-- if anything we need to start addressing the bots as agents of chaos or control and less as things we walk past like spam and ads.
Shutting down the bot nets seems an almost impossible task at this point without shutting down the whole internet and starting on fresh protocols and hardware. Not exactly feasible for the whole world but doable on small networks. Finding out who controls the boy nets, and ruining them seems the only option.
Not all shills are bots, of course not. But some shills ARE bots. How do we know how many are bot and how many are human? Should we just use the climate hoax people’s numbers? 97% of all shills are bots! Since they have a list of every scientist and their opinion, we must have a list of all the shills and their bot status right?
Right. So 97%. Seems to be a good number, they pulled it out of their ass and ran with it why can’t we?
I think the vast majority of shill accounts are under the control of people. Lots of it is automated, but it's not like an army of robots or something.
I dunno if it’s vast majority or just the majority. Some people love to troll. Some people make 30 accounts to upvote their own stuff. Some people write scripts. Some people just want to watch the world burn. These days an AI or bot doesn’t even have to be complete to be a stubborn arguer in an online space. But where people lose interest in doing it after a while a bot never does.
Look into The Internet is Dead theory. The internet we knew in the 90’s and early 2000’s is gone, most of the traffic and responses now are AI bots. YouTube itself admitted it was worried about the Inversion back in 2013. The Inversion being when bot traffic is more than human traffic, that human traffic becomes the blocked and censored part and only artificial conversation is on the site. This was 8 years ago, there’s no way that shift hasn’t happened there and in other spaces. Much as I love the internet for its uses and information, the only way to be sure you’re talking to a human and getting through to them is to be looking them in the eye, with your hand on your EDC if need be for full effect.
It is definitely apparent that the majority of conversations online are short lived and rarely build community quite like they used to.
Bots spam and ruin good conversations and then sow doubt and morale problems to boot which don't affect the bots, but do affect the people.
Bots have purposes tho - so knowing the purpose is half the battle. Bots designed to link farm for example act a different way than those AI speech bots.
-- if anything we need to start addressing the bots as agents of chaos or control and less as things we walk past like spam and ads.
Shutting down the bot nets seems an almost impossible task at this point without shutting down the whole internet and starting on fresh protocols and hardware. Not exactly feasible for the whole world but doable on small networks. Finding out who controls the boy nets, and ruining them seems the only option.
Yes, it's definitely hard to shut down them. If impossible without even worse problems.
What we need is to make the bots useful, not stop them.
Take recaptchas for instance. They don't do anything except make better bots... Not a good thing.
We should have captchas which use bots....
This thread is talking about all the shills being bots. They aren't.
Not all shills are bots, of course not. But some shills ARE bots. How do we know how many are bot and how many are human? Should we just use the climate hoax people’s numbers? 97% of all shills are bots! Since they have a list of every scientist and their opinion, we must have a list of all the shills and their bot status right? Right. So 97%. Seems to be a good number, they pulled it out of their ass and ran with it why can’t we?
I think the vast majority of shill accounts are under the control of people. Lots of it is automated, but it's not like an army of robots or something.
I dunno if it’s vast majority or just the majority. Some people love to troll. Some people make 30 accounts to upvote their own stuff. Some people write scripts. Some people just want to watch the world burn. These days an AI or bot doesn’t even have to be complete to be a stubborn arguer in an online space. But where people lose interest in doing it after a while a bot never does.