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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

You do realize that 95% of all Reddit / Lemmy posts are all created by bots right?

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    I've run this experiment before. ~90% of accounts sampled on the top 20 /r/all with not prior post history before 2-3 months got converted to cryptocurrency spam bots. Some of the remainder were porn spam. A few deleted accounts. A few seemingly real people. This was during the heights of cryptocurrency mania. Believe me or don't. I can't be assed with source dropping internet-pseud wankery.

    Bot deception tactics have certainly changed since the prevalence of LLMs. I haven't been paying attention to what the patterns have shifted to. Before these times, it was easily spotted because they were relatively simple.

    I believe earlier this year someone on /r/theoryofreddit spotted closed networks of subreddits where bots engage with each other. Those are used to farm accounts on a massive scale.

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