Comment by jandrese

Comment by jandrese 5 days ago

Facebook is probably the worst social media company at combating AI bot spam, although it is a tight race with Twitter/X. Even with aggressive pruning of AI generated "content" it's impossible to get ahead. No matter how many bots you block there are 10 more to take their place. I had to abandon the platform.

Facebook doesn't even seem to care that their platform is being strangled with fake posts. At least Twitter/X has the excuse that Elon fired the people who were trying to combat the spam. I don't know what Facebook's excuse is.

robertlagrant 4 days ago

YouTube has lots and lots of bot comments as well.

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gspencley 4 days ago

Not only that, but people have discovered that comments shown to you on YouTube videos are also subject to "algorithmic scoring", based on your preferences, just like video recommendations.
About a year ago a video went viral where someone in a romantic relationship demonstrated that the opinions expressed in comments on videos shown to her differ radically from the opinions expressed in comments on the exact same video when viewed by her significant other using his account.
My wife and I then immediately verified that this was true for us as well.

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sebastiennight 4 days ago

The current trend is, relevant-looking top-upvoted comment followed by a thread where an innocent-looking account will ask an innocent question/request for recommendations, and get a helpful reply from multiple concerned kind "people" recommending the same resource... All AI bots from top to bottom

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- robertlagrant 4 days ago
  
  Oh yes I used to have this problem. Then I encountered the wonderful Mary Georgina on the internet and her website helped me lots, and I get such great returns! Have you heard of her?
  
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jandrese 4 days ago

Yeah, but who gives a shit about YouTube comments? They've always been useless at best.

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- robertlagrant 4 days ago
  
  I don't really understand this perspective.
  
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lizardking 4 days ago

Even worse, YouTube is presently being over taken with AI slop content.

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- meroes 4 days ago
  
  Haha those "how it's made" thumbnails of a fully formed cake shaped like a car plopping out of a spigot or other nonsense.
  
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GuinansEyebrows 4 days ago

can we really measure whether they're bad at something they don't actually earnestly try to do?

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