#Twitter bot accounts

[compassionmattersmost]

The Dark Side of Algorithms: Fake Accounts and AI-Driven Manipulation in Social Media

As AI continues to integrate itself into the fabric of modern life, the ethical challenges surrounding its use become increasingly critical. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of social media, where artificial intelligence is being used to create fake accounts, skew public discourse, and promote harmful content for the sake of engagement. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter (X), and…

[mysterycitrus]

my arc as a nightwing fan is complete (got blocked by tom taylor on twitter)

[pseudophan]

Do you have a plan for at what point we start committing voter fraud back? If we go under 60% maybe?

yeah if (when, lbr) we fall under 60% i think we have to. would be less stressful to start now but also like i don't wanna cheat unless we absolutely have to i want the moral high ground in this so bad. but oh my god they are so blatant about it 😭

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… BE COOL BE COOL

[c-rowlesdraws]

hell. Hell. We are in hell

[hymnoeides]

did you block anyone

Huh interesting question… ngl I forget the block buttons exist sometimes bc I usually don’t use it unless someone has done something personal/directly at me that I feel unsafe/uncomfortable. Which has not yet happened here and hopefully won’t ever. I usually just scroll past and don’t think about it and eventually it’ll be gone 🤷

[venacoeurva]

I do feel bad for people who really only use Twitter, I used it exclusively for a while when it was still decent-ish pre-elongated crust, and it's been dogshit but it keeps getting worse... but some people

have all their mutuals and friends there

some people can't use other social media they otherwise would due to it being banned where they are (which might include the aforementioned mutuals and friends living there too)

a ton of people have a larger following or reach there than any other sites they use that won't follow them elsewhere and that's their only source of income so they can't just delete and leave

and it's one of the few major social medias left where there's an active and openly allowed nsfw scene.

The fact that the alternatives are smaller sites scattered all over the place that might die in a few years, get worse, stagnate, or just never get much traffic just has me kinda

[newyorkxpizza]

sometimes i consider posting cock but if it broke containment i think i would go insane

[slavhew]

theyre as silly as the music i listen to while drawing them

[puppydolled]

also posting this here because it is the theme of its thoughts right now & tumblr seems to be the place where there are trannies that like to ponder with it where twitter is more receptive to its personal & doll things

[saym0-0]

headcanon all the bots and the ais all have access to the spg social media accounts straight from their brains and dont have their own personal accounts so the spg twitter is extremely active from like 8 robots all browsing at the same time. they have to sign off with their initial/name,, sometimes you get massively long threads thats just them talking to each other on the same account from literally 4 rooms apart

[eretzyisrael]

Last week, a representative of an Israeli social threat intelligence firm Cyabra spoke at a Knesset session about how a coordinated influence campaign from Iraq was using bots in the first days of the war to impact public opinion.

I've discussed this a little, and I spent some more time looking at the bots attacking my account.

Social media allows attackers to quickly adjust their methods to see what is working and what isn't. I'm finding that they are getting more effective at their messaging.

The ones attacking me are specifically trying to turn the Israeli public against the war. They post almost exclusively in Hebrew. They are using a few vectors for their messaging that would resonate with Israelis: attacking Netanyahu's leadership, pretending to care about the hostages, and claiming that the IDF is hiding things from the public during the war and things are going badly.

When they create new bot accounts, they will use Jewish and Israeli iconography in their profiles - lots of Israeli flags, for example. 

They'll use typically Jewish and Israeli names - lots of "Levy" and "Cohen" and "Friedman"s. And there is a hierarchy - some older bot accounts that have been around for several months that aren't specifically Israeli sounding are feeding a second tier, which might have 30-150 fake followers of other bots, and then the bottom tier will only have one or two followers. Nearly all of the bottom tier accounts have been created within the past few weeks. 

Often, the accounts will start off by following and retweeting actual popular Zionist accounts (including mine) to make themselves look legitimate,. and sometimes this fools real people into following them, making it a little harder to identify them.

I don't know where they get their content, but it is getting much more sophisticated every day. Here is a video that was posted by hundreds of those bots where they use humor to try to demoralize Israelis into thinking the IDF is killing hostages and being killed by Hamas because of stupidity. This one seems to have been created by an Arab account but they added Hebrew messaging. 

As I mentioned last week, Iranian-linked sites are bragging that they are learning Hebrew and studying the Israeli psyche to fine tune these sorts of messages and make them appear to be truly from Israelis.

To these botmasters, Israeli dissension on how to conduct the war and anti-government protests are a godsend. It makes some of their messages look like they really could be from left-wing Israelis, and some of their material may indeed be from a fringe of Israelis. The sheer number of bots makes it appear that Israelis are far more divided.

The good news is that their attempt to use these bots to get a ceasefire or demoralize the Israeli public means that Hamas is losing, badly. But every social media user must understand how extensive and sophisticated these campaigns are to manipulate you. Tens of thousands of fake accounts, with millions of messages, is not a small scale campaign. 

[karin848]

Trying to ask this on Twitter was an entire shitshow, so I’ll try looking around here instead. Does anyone know any Helluva Boss/Fizzarolli/or BlitzFizz artists in the Hellaverse fandom who have their commissions open? I’m looking around to commission a Fizz or a BlitzFizz piece

If you don’t know about open commissions specifically, but just want to share a link to your fav artists - let me know that too! 💖

[turbobyakuren]

im really heartbroken right now i need help ;_;

[sickofthis666]

I'll play bg3 forgetting women's sexualization exist cos I make the female companions wear normal armor, my female Tav wears the basic rest outfit (which is basically the male Tav outfit) and I make Astarion wear the revealing outfits I find/buy.

But then I stumble upon a yt vid or a tiktok or an Insta reel where all the female companions are in Bikini armors and the male companions entirely covered. And I’m forced to remember.

And that's not even mentionning the number of comments I've seen where players mention playing with x female companion naked. To which another player will automatically reply: "Not too hard to play with one hand? ;))"

[francy-sketches]

this is the funniest form of art theft i've ever experienced