Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
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Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
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Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
#2So the rate of ad-fraud on climate news will be higher?
Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
#3Cool! Activism as a service; offer a subscription and let people pay for bot clicks for keywords ... like advertising backwards!
With AI written stories and automated engagement, literacy is superfluous, all us meat bags need do is sit back and let the decisions of our betters propagate through our lives.
Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
#4Is this created by the oil lobby to increase click fraud for climate change articles? Lmao
Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
#5For what purpose…?
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#6This is bad. Publishers could get kicked off the ad networks as a result of this activity.
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#7I upvoted this because its an amazing example of a project achieving the exact opposite of what it aims to do (bring money/views to positive climate change). Remarkably, these are professors at NYU and UT Austin.
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#8I want to like this as an art project but just can't.
Yes, it's interesting to point out that manipulating content algorithms to favor special interests is a reality. It would have been nice to at least acknowledge that this is generally not employed for wholesome causes.
Mostly, though, this just literally doesn't work.
Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
#9This is insane. Check out the live feed of a bot in action - a browser being automated, with various photos of human hands clicking the ads, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEHgOTgtGso . It may or may not be broadcasting but you can seek to the past.
"Scroll scroll scroll... click click click click..."
Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news
#10This is insane. Check out the live feed of a bot in action - a browser being automated, with various photos of human hands clicking the ads, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEHgOTgtGso . It may or may not be broadcasting but you can seek to the past. "Scroll scroll scroll... click click click click..."
Incredibly creepy.