There’s a campaign going on to push the idea that Democrats are changing sides after watching Charlie Kirk videos. Interestingly, even though the bots are posting the exact same copy-pasted message, they seem to be controlled by an AI, since they will respond to comments, and even basic techniques for outing an AI (like “ignore all previous instructions” comments) work against them. So the first post is hardcoded, but they’re using an LLM for the responses.

  • Bob Robertson IX
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    18 days ago

    Actually, it is 100% certain that anyone posting on Twitter is either a bot or a troll. Once you realize that, it’s easy to completely walk away from Twitter.

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      18 days ago

      No, there still are real people on twitter, unfortunately, particularly elites and journalists who were the main reason why twitter ever mattered. Anyone else though can safely assumed to be bots if they have a blue check mark.

      If they don’t have a blue check mark then they don’t have paid api access, meaning their either an extremely advanced bot system that can circumvent twitters bot prevention, or they’re a real person.