He generally shows most of the signs of the misinformation accounts:

  • Wants to repeatedly tell basically the same narrative and nothing else
  • Narrative is fundamentally false
  • Not interested in any kind of conversation or in learning that what he’s posting is backwards from the values he claims to profess

I also suspect that it’s not a coincidence that this is happening just as the Elon Musks of the world are ramping up attacks on Wikipedia, specially because it is a force for truth in the world that’s less corruptible than a lot of the others, and tends to fight back legally if someone tries to interfere with the free speech or safety of its editors.

Anyway, YSK. I reported him as misinformation, but who knows if that will lead to any result.

Edit: Number of people real salty that I’m talking about this: Lots

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    4·
    19 hours ago

    spend money to generate quality LLM output, they can post as much as they want on virtually all social media sites.

    $20 for a chatgpt pro account and fractions of pennies to run a bot server. It’s really extremely cheap to do this.

    I don’t have an answer to how to solve the “motivated actor” beyond mass tagging/community effort.

    • kava@lemmy.world
      61·
      19 hours ago

      $20 for a chatgpt pro account and fractions of pennies to run a bot server. It’s really extremely cheap to do this.

      openAI has checks for this type of thing. They limit number of requests per hour with the regular $20 subscription

      you’d have to use the API and that comes at a cost per request, depending on which model you are using. it can get expensive very quickly depending on what scale of bot manipulation you are going for

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Heuristics, data analysis, signal processing, ML models…etc

      It’s about identifying artificial behavior not identifying artificial text, we can’t really identify artificial text, but behavioral patterns are a higher bar for botters to get over.

      The community isn’t in a position to do anything about it the platform itself is the only one in a position to gather the necessary data to even start targeting the problem.

      I can’t target the problem without first collecting the data and aggregating it. And Lemmy doesn’t do much to enable that currently.