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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Welcome from the rest of us reddit transplants! I'd offer you punch but I think spez snuck in and peed in it.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I think notspez did it, but they did it as performance art, and I enjoyed it.

[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Enjoyed the art or enjoyed the pee punch?

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I was already pissed, I didn't need the punch to have a laugh.

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