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Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 81 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That's one instance of a troll farm from 11 years ago.

Surely nowadays these troll farms are LLM powered instead of human powered and of course need compute power.

Where the humans sit that orchestrate these bot networks is another topic.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    I don't know about that.

    Feels like there's a high risk of the LLM going off script and going against the points they are trying to make.

    Just like Trump's AI site saying the 2020 election was not stolen.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago

    Surely

    Trust me bro, it's the vibe

    There's been a spike recently in australia of people paying Indonesians to post right wing content, half the time a company is using AI they're actually just paying people in the third world pennies for posting

    a lot of this stuff is propaganda on behalf of ai companies, ai is scary! Ai is evil! Ai is powerful! lol

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Yeah the idea that they would just route their traffic from a regular office network connection is truly stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    They will be using data center compute to generate the traffic, but proxy it through residential proxies and other compromised devices that form a botnet.
    Central generation with remote access for the trolls, and distributed outbound traffic.

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