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“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

When you set your paperclip optimizers to optimize for "engagement," this is the obvious, inevitable result.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-fl…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

#Mastodon instance owners and admins, what value do you use for "Content cache retention period"? As a single user of my instance on masto.host, I hit the Database limit in less than a year. If I understand correctly, this setting deletes even bookmarks and replies from other servers, yet there's no way of limiting only heavy posters like news bots that could easily broadc…