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I think twitter is an odd-one-out here, twitter as a whole has been heading down hill ever since the acquisition, and I wouldn't be surprised if many of those blue checks are officially sanctioned bots. Especially given the way so many of them push the same narratives that Musk does at the same time he does.

by MeetingsBrowser7 hours ago|

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I don't think so.

The people leaving LLM replies are paying minimum $20/month for LLM access, and probably more in practice.

A one time $10 fee is not a deterrent.

by RealityVoid5 hours ago|

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I think you're right. I think _merely_ paying won't deter them. But, if you couple this with banning of accounts that post AI slop, you get:

1) the cost becomes even higher for AI slop factories since they will probably get multiple accounts banned.

2) It prevents influence to accrue to any specific account. This diminishes the incentive for slop, since sufficient success means a ban.

3) It reduces the moderation effort since creating accounts is no longer a sustainable strategy.

by shevy-java5 hours ago|

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Agreed, but I left twitter even before the right-hand-raising oligarch took over. The reason was that censorship started to kick in aka twitter staff writing me a mail that my "conduct" is not appropriate. Basically they try to reduce the "aggressiveness" in written content. Well, that's already an assumption on their part; and in any discourse with orthogonal opinions, you can not really reconcile such positions anyway, so I don't need some 20 years old from India hired by Twitter to tell me what I should or should not do (though, realistically it was a bot actually that just scanned for content). I noticed that censorship is increasing on "social" websites. Reddit as an example is a mega-censorship site - the amount of deletion by crazy mods is insane.

Bots are indeed killing twitter now. I noticed more and more were leaving permanently. Musk evidently accelerated the decay here. There is something wrong with his mindset here, it's almost as if it is pathological. His perception of things is genuinely distorted, and I am not even 100% certain he is completely aware of it; he must be partially aware, but it seems there is also something wrong with the brain. No wonder he gets along with Trump - that one now has clearly dementia narcissism in the final stage.