Eh, even if Musk is working on cutting the worst of the staff out he's not even begun to address the botnets on Twitter yet. I suspect that Team Blue will have quite a bit of leverage for a while yet.
Bots are largely a psy op to get you from noticing what's actually going on. Sure, when a DNC-approved propaganda post suddenly gets one million likes out of nowhere, that's obvious botting. But tweets like this one, with a realistic like to reply ratio and a bunch of NPCs in the replies, aren't botted. They're the result of a superPAC, such as ShareBlue. They don't need bots when they have employees with dozens of sockpuppets, all being paid by people like Larry Fink and George Soros, and it's all perfectly legal.
When humans reply to a tweet, it lends an air of legitimacy. A tweet with 1.4 million likes and 100 replies, all of which are just gifs of Beyonce sipping a mimosa, is very obviously illegitimate and all but the dumbest of motherfuckers knows it. AI is not even remotely in a place where they can automatically generate hundreds or thousands of replies that sound like they came from humans. Even NPCs tend not to literally repeat each other verbatim.
The fact that nobody ever talks about SuperPACs is extremely concerning. They're responsible for probably 90% of propaganda you see on a day-to-day basis.
Eh, even if Musk is working on cutting the worst of the staff out he's not even begun to address the botnets on Twitter yet. I suspect that Team Blue will have quite a bit of leverage for a while yet.
Bots are largely a psy op to get you from noticing what's actually going on. Sure, when a DNC-approved propaganda post suddenly gets one million likes out of nowhere, that's obvious botting. But tweets like this one, with a realistic like to reply ratio and a bunch of NPCs in the replies, aren't botted. They're the result of a superPAC, such as ShareBlue. They don't need bots when they have employees with dozens of sockpuppets, all being paid by people like Larry Fink and George Soros, and it's all perfectly legal.
When humans reply to a tweet, it lends an air of legitimacy. A tweet with 1.4 million likes and 100 replies, all of which are just gifs of Beyonce sipping a mimosa, is very obviously illegitimate and all but the dumbest of motherfuckers knows it. AI is not even remotely in a place where they can automatically generate hundreds or thousands of replies that sound like they came from humans. Even NPCs tend not to literally repeat each other verbatim.
The fact that nobody ever talks about SuperPACs is extremely concerning. They're responsible for probably 90% of propaganda you see on a day-to-day basis.
That's a stupid typo. These high profile figures should spend slightly longer composing their important tweets.