The causation could also be the other way round.
replyTwitter language has started seeming normal casual to us, rather than us using normal casual language in Twitter.
Did you try meta? I was into grok but now meta works well for me
replyI'm sure Twitter knows which are the bot accounts and is surely excluding them from their model training. Twitter bots aren't a new phenomenon after all.
replyI don't think Twitter/X know for sure who the bots are, since Elon has been pretty vocal about trying to stop them for ages, yet I still get lots of spam DMs (as do others with far fewer followers/reach).
replyEven if 95% of the spam gets actively reported and dealt with, that still leaves a ton of nonsense on the platform, getting fed into the LLM. And spam has only gotten worse over the years, as the barrier to entry has lowered and lowered.
Are the spam DMs advertisements or more generally something linked to a product or service? I wouldn't be surprised if X is more lenient towards bots that pay them for adverts.
replyI'd have guessed that at least some of the bots are Twitter itself, trying to draw you in with some sense of engagement. Given that Musk is the owner, and everything we know about him and have seen him do, I'd not be surprised if some of the MAGA bots are his too.
reply>Elon has been pretty vocal about trying to stop them for ages
replyYou know people lie, right? Especially when the lie casts them in a better light and/or makes them more money.
Elon lied on record many times, admitting to the lies only when forced, under oath.
replyHighly doubtful seeing as my 14 year old twitter account got caught in a recent bot ban wave with no means of contacting a human for recovery.
replyThere is bots everywhere, it has nothing to do with the platform, it has to do with attackers having an incentive to do mass account farming, no platform is secure against it.
replySuper easy, just make a web-of-trust type of thing: messages are only visible to those who already vouched for you. Otherwise, you pay $0.01/per message/per user reached.
replyWith banning and deboosting they need to be very accurate but with filtering they can be more liberal in excluding
replynot really. there are easy heuristics to filter out bots with good confidence. FWIW i don't see any bots posting anything in my feed
replyYes your individual feed isn't really relevant if we talk about the masses, Reddit accounts are for sale quite cheap, HN as well, X too and so-on, it's literally just a matter of means/methodology. If I want today to do 1000 random posts talking about a certain thing, I could.
replymy individual feed does matter because it shows that it is possible to curate something without bots which is obviously what XAI would do
replySadly, it's more likely that people will just start talking like bots
replyThere was already evidence last year[1] that pointed to ChatGPT-specific words like "meticulous," "delve," etc becoming more frequently used than they were previously. The linked study used audio of academic talks and podcasts to determine this.
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