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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months ago

A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

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A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months ago
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On the Bluesky social network, you may notice a lot of drive-by responses from accounts that rarely or never post — they just reply to other accounts. The reply pattern starts with a phrase like “I…
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    oh I’m absolutely keeping this article around for the next time some fuckhead tries to call me paranoid for correctly calling out some utterly obvious shit as 1024 bots coordinated by 3 guys on discord with shit to stir

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      rahaeli is fucking gold

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    2024 when I was a kid: “I wonder who the first person on Mars will be?”

    2024 we have at home: Synthetic Assholes

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      for millions of years humans lived in caves. in the last year alone we’ve mastered automated child grooming, learned to boil lakes to generate glue pizza recipes, and for the first time created fully artificial asshole reply guys. progress is exponential

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    The bots are taking my job!

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    This is why it’s more authentic to be an asshole disagreer?

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      the block is as fast, but it’s more personal

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    As a human,

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    I just watched this video the other night on the same topic.

    https://youtu.be/rpOkrxxpTcE

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