Remember when spotting a bot was actually hard?

Back in 2020, I spent a whole weekend tracking a single spam account on Twitter that was posting fake news articles. It took cross-referencing dates, checking image metadata, and a lot of coffee. Now, my feed is just a wall of obvious AI slop with that weird, soulless writing style. It's everywhere overnight. What was the first time you realized the scale of the problem?

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richard5818d ago

Man, I knew it was bad when I caught myself almost replying to a comment about lawn care written in that same weirdly polite, empty style. My own brain was getting tricked for a second by a bot! That's when it hit me. It's not just spam accounts anymore, it's like the whole vibe of talking online has been replaced by this bland, helpful-sounding nothingness. Feels like we lost a secret war nobody told us we were fighting.

terry_bailey357d ago

Nah, it's honestly not that deep. The old bots were just bad at pretending. At least the new stuff is coherent, even if it sounds a bit off. Kinda prefer it to the old spam.