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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Those followers (or anccount) were either purchased, or they gained followers via follow back posts.

Theres groups of people that do this all day long, they post lists of users(which are also mixed with bot accounts) of people who follow back. You add them, they add you. Rinse repeat til your looking at a few thousand followers.

Then you cull your following list by removing a ton of em.

Now you’re left with thousands of followers(junk, bots, spam accounts) and a few following.

Yes, your gay porn accounts are likely automated post bots.