Welcome to another day in: AI and bots have effectively killed the internet.
Rolling Stone is reporting that GUDEA, a startup attempting to track how false claims go viral, most of the allegations of right wing politics, Nazi symbolism, and dog-whistling lyrics regarding Swift's twelfth studio album came from "inorganic" sources.
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These "inorganic" acounts are often called bots, but the term "bot" can often be misleading as they can range from genuine AI-driven accounts run by some over-arching company but can also include "troll" farms in which real people in call center-like operations are paid to create and maintain accounts that promote the interests of the person paying them. See: Who Trolled Amber by Tortoise for more.
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