Comment by smileybarry
Comment by smileybarry 2 days ago
It's gotten dramatically worse since premium started rewarding payouts for engagement/views, alongside zero moderation. Now there's an actual incentive to be a jerk, a spammer, and make repeated bad faith arguments / "just asking questions" -- people reply, your tweet is seen by more people, you get paid a share of ad revenue.
Then you have the regurgitated messages in replies (AI or otherwise) endlessly copied and distorted. Recently it's been 5+ pages until I see a real reply, while I have 3000+ accounts blocked by now. It's getting harder and harder to find the real person who wrote that witty reply, and not the endless blue check accounts who copy-pasted it to farm engagement on their visibility-boosted tweets.
Genuinely getting more and more unusable.
Tangential but there's my disappointment to AI in there: they haven't found a way to build convincingly human bots, let alone a procedural content creation system.
Both AI believers and doomers insist generative AI could surpass humans by every single metric that matters in social media. All we've got is first Nigerian, then Indian, and now increasingly Pakistani spammers desperately reply bombing trending posts made by 10 years alpha users, as if whoever behind it completely failed to do it and has been wasting gullible human spammer candidates faster than Aperture Science.