The amount of very obvious paid shills replying to that tweet is puzzling. It has relatively few likes and very few comments, yet the video has over ten million views and it's all Twitter NPCs are talking about.
It's one of the most blatant astroturf campaigns I've ever seen, but why? If this video was a massive viral success I could definitely see the establishment making sure that nobody knows that people were happier before Current Year, but it's only being watched by a small handful of actual people. Why such a tremendous overreaction to a video that, without them spinning up the hate machine, would have been immediately forgotten? Is this a test of a new botnet?
I suspect the bots have been unleashed and operating independently now that GPT-4 has similar capabilities. They might be operating under heuristics left from previous campaigns.
That'd be my guess. They zeroed in on a video about young white people being happy in the past and immediately started with the copy paste "everyone in this video is racist/homophobic" responses. Half of the comments are virtually identical, and that's not including the generic Beyonce Rolling Her Eyes gifs you see whenever the DNC sics bots on a post.
The amount of very obvious paid shills replying to that tweet is puzzling. It has relatively few likes and very few comments, yet the video has over ten million views and it's all Twitter NPCs are talking about.
It's one of the most blatant astroturf campaigns I've ever seen, but why? If this video was a massive viral success I could definitely see the establishment making sure that nobody knows that people were happier before Current Year, but it's only being watched by a small handful of actual people. Why such a tremendous overreaction to a video that, without them spinning up the hate machine, would have been immediately forgotten? Is this a test of a new botnet?
I suspect the bots have been unleashed and operating independently now that GPT-4 has similar capabilities. They might be operating under heuristics left from previous campaigns.
That'd be my guess. They zeroed in on a video about young white people being happy in the past and immediately started with the copy paste "everyone in this video is racist/homophobic" responses. Half of the comments are virtually identical, and that's not including the generic Beyonce Rolling Her Eyes gifs you see whenever the DNC sics bots on a post.