Consoom 4chan hack: oy vey we have free speech too!
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Holy cow, theyre almost twice the posts of the US, a country that has a population of about *30 times* of them.
Originally uncovered on reddit, which I reconfirmed during the 2016 election, chatbots were shaping people's perceptions of topics long before their existence was even acknowledged to the public. They essentially got outed (to those of us who pay attention) because the first few comments in a reddit-style forum are the ones most likely to be promoted to the top. This means that, for hot topics (like politics in 2016) they are forced to post responses in inhuman spans of time. Check out this example of a popular account, who would create the 'top comment' of 109 words (not including markdown) in just 2 minutes, yielding 55 WPM assuming the account started typing the very second the post was posted. https://files.catbox.moe/ni9jaq.png
This reddit account was banned for posting bait links in arguments he ended up in with bots, showing the links were instantly clicked with IPs that trace to Amazon AWS. Supposedly, modern chatbots are just now gaining this functionality, and he proved this back in 2017: https://files.catbox.moe/42dskv.png
I have a ton more on this; my original posts about Twitter being the stomping ground for early chatbots + my posts about the entire internet being backdoored by design are likely the main reason Voat went down in the first place.
The origin of chatbots on the internet, at least in 2016, was arguing against people against vaccines on twitter.
Seriously, the origin of the modern chatbot was to argue provax on twitter. Because amplifying the provax position was worth making digital shills. Excerpt from my original post on this:
> In 2015, DARPA held an open challenge, where the goal was simply to quickly and accurately identify political chatbots - so called 'influence bots' - from actual users. The battlefield was Twitter, and the corpus comprised 4.1 Million tweets from just over 7000 users, all arguing for and against vaccination. Mixed in with these users was 39 highly evolved influence bots, **all of which argued for vaccination.**
> **Every Influence Chatbot represented a pro-vaccine stance.**
> Here's the whitepaper (read it - it's good): https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05140
This is why we can never allow society to end up in a position where most interaction happens online.
Too late it seems
I think they hit the physical limits of processing units back in 1970s, but kept slow rolling the releases for the public to control the adoption of technology.
We as public consumers are only now (around 2018) getting to the physical limits of how small transistors can be.
or even just simply pay more attention in your usual interactions and lurking spaces.
you notice trends and patterns. sometimes people get exposed. over time it'll become second nature like with instantly knowing when mainstream news is spouting BS
The main way is that you need to only interact online with accounts that you know belong to people that you know. Unfortunately, the days of the wild-west-ish giant online beer hall are basically over.
You're not wrong.
Basically, methods do exist, but you need to have access to the site at the admin level. The primary methods for IDing influence bots are through cluster analysis, and you need to see who upvotes who for that to work.
Back when OG Voat was going down, and people were lining up alternatives, I was trying to tell the guys that all that is really needed is to make the votes public. If a comment says +31, hovering it should show a list of who the 31 are. Not only does that prevent tampering at the admin level (e.g. /u/spez tier), but it also allows clustering analysis to be done.
> at least we have ConPro [et. al.]
We could be drowned out it a moment. We exist because jews haven't decided to shut the place down. Seriously, what, are the admins going to self fund? Then the yids harass, just like Voat, which drove one admin away (Atko), and if that doesn't work they DDOS endlessly, making the hosting costs retarded, which is how they got Putt (in a roundabout way, it caused him to take on a jewish investor, who rugpulled him).
We really do need better, jew resistant, alternatives.
Lol, relevant
> Altman is among the company’s largest shareholders, behind only Condé Nast parent Advance Magazine Publishers, Chinese internet giant Tencent and Fidelity.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/29/sam-altmans-reddit-stake-now-worth-over-1-billion-after-earnings-pop.html
Founded by a guy named Solomon Neuhaus, after he changed his name to Sam Newhouse. In other words, reddit's jewish founders sold it to a jewish media conglomerate.