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I’d imagine this is an amazing training ground for AI bots like this. Obviously the success comes when we are no longer talking about this in the bots have just blended in with real people.

When I bailed on Twitter it was around the time of the House speakership drama and these obviously bogus accounts would be in reporters' replies saying, like, "what an interesting turn of events!" followed by surface-level Wikipedia dump info of whoever was moving up in that round of voting

This thread has some thoughts: bsky.app/profile/duen...

DuendeonFuego@duendeonfuego.bsky.social

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵