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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 (www.abc.net.au)

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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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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 83 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Anybody else remember when Musk said he was buying Twitter so he could get rid of all the bots? Once again he does exactly the opposite of what he said he would.

[–] fadhl3y@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

"drain the swamp"

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

he lures all bots from the net into Xitter, and then shuts it down!

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Just like my plan to eradicate the Mosquito population by first maintaining an enormous pool of stagnant water for them to breed in, then draining it once they're all here!

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe he will end up saving the internet by shoving that ship full of bots and then letting it sink.