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submitted 7 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


One morning in January this year, marine scientist Terry Hughes opened X (formerly Twitter) and searched for tweets about the Great Barrier Reef.

Users posted videos showing scrolling feeds with numerous accounts stating "I'm sorry, but I cannot provide a response to your request as it goes against OpenAl's content policy."

Shortly after Mr Musk gained control of X while complaining about bots, X shut down free access to the programming interface that allowed researchers to study this problem.

Towards the end of last year, Dr Graham and his colleagues at QUT paid X $7,800 from a grant fund to analyse 1 million tweets surrounding the first Republican primary debate.

A company called Byword claims it stole 3.6 million in "total traffic" from a competitor by copying their site and rewriting 1,800 articles using AI.

Meta recently announced it was building tools to detect and label AI-generated images posted on its Facebook, Instagram and Threads services.


The original article contains 1,603 words, the summary contains 155 words. Saved 90%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Fuck you bot !

[-] match@pawb.social 5 points 7 months ago

what's the business plan for these bots anyways

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Pretend to be users so you can claim to have users so you can make money on the gamble market so you can be rich.

[-] 8ender@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Long game state sponsored shit probably

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[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

Not only X, the whole internet is run by bots it seems.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My favorite showcase of this: Vinny's "PERUSE MY BIO" segment (timestamp: 2:26)

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 0 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Vinny's "PERUSE MY BIO" segment

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I've tried a bunch of Piped links over the last week, none seem to work for me. Are they working for anyone?

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

They have never worked for me, not even once.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

They worked for me some weeks ago.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I just tried this one. Spun for a full minute and I gave up. I would say 80% of alternative frontends for popular services haven't worked for me traditionally, yet people swear by them. It's really puzzling to me. Like you and I can't be the only person for whom services like these don't work.

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I've never had one work and no longer even try.

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Doesn't work for me either. I usually just copy the YouTube url into newpipe on my phone if I really want to watch it. I do wish I could have it do that automatically

[-] matt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You can have links open in NewPipe by setting it in Android's settings:

Settings -> Apps -> All apps -> NewPipe -> Open by default

And then set things up in there

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago
[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I get the feeling that lemmy is kinda similar in that regard.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Everyone on ~~Reddit~~ the internet is a bot except you.

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