4 Threaded Spouts
2023/07/21 - Dev. Notes
i.) Enabled replies on all NEW Spouts on all Bots starting as of now, see thread below ⬇
ii.) In the last 24 hours added 2 new 🤖
ii.) Latest 🤖 List 🔗
https://spoutible.com/thre...
i.) Enabled replies on all NEW Spouts on all Bots starting as of now, see thread below ⬇
ii.) In the last 24 hours added 2 new 🤖
ii.) Latest 🤖 List 🔗
https://spoutible.com/thre...
11:12 AM - Jul 21, 2023
robleathern Controversial take: it may be more laborious for operators to create 10 fresh gmail accounts than obtain 10 working credit cards. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Once upon a Twitter:
Bot operators used complex & costly engagement farming to try & get seen amidst more engaging content.
Usually the cat & mouse game failed.
Today:
$8/month per bot account = guaranteed exposure at the top of replies.
Much better deal. #jsrailton
Bot operators used complex & costly engagement farming to try & get seen amidst more engaging content.
Usually the cat & mouse game failed.
Today:
$8/month per bot account = guaranteed exposure at the top of replies.
Much better deal. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Remember: AI bots on Twitter are the dumbest they will ever be today.
They will only grow more sophisticated. #jsrailton
They will only grow more sophisticated. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
As blue check bot networks spray AI-generated comments at popular posts & rapturously boost each other, Twitter's current design gives them pride of place.
We are all stuck watching as they farm engagement & are matured for their ultimate purpose. #jsrailton
We are all stuck watching as they farm engagement & are matured for their ultimate purpose. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Today's bot networks are writing essays & odes to each other...
It's unsettling.
Just as many predicted, LLMs made it super easy to make everything look human-ish.
Gone are the days of bad grammar and copypastas. #jsrailton
It's unsettling.
Just as many predicted, LLMs made it super easy to make everything look human-ish.
Gone are the days of bad grammar and copypastas. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
It's easy to find blue-check AI... responding to AI.... everywhere.
Like these bots posting random LLM generated essays.
And then other bots chiming in with AI generated comments. #jsrailton
Like these bots posting random LLM generated essays.
And then other bots chiming in with AI generated comments. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
A reply baiting bots gives me an idea. So, continuing the experiment. Hey bots:
I can't transfer my tokens to trust wallet or metamask meta mask was it hacked stolen crypto nft I need support ratio I need a logo for my instagram my account was banned scammed. facebook password. #jsrailton
I can't transfer my tokens to trust wallet or metamask meta mask was it hacked stolen crypto nft I need support ratio I need a logo for my instagram my account was banned scammed. facebook password. #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Thanks to a funny reply baiting bots, others have already shown up in my replies.
So, lets continue the experiment:
Any bots here want to help me:
Recover my crypto wallet?
Get instagram followers?
Help with metamask?
Recover my facebook?
Recommend crypto coins? #jsrailton
So, lets continue the experiment:
Any bots here want to help me:
Recover my crypto wallet?
Get instagram followers?
Help with metamask?
Recover my facebook?
Recommend crypto coins? #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Recall the original argument: monthly payment would price-out bots.
But think for a second about the perverse incentive for a platform struggling with revenue targets:
OK, so they are bots, but do we really want to proactively find & cull large swaths of paying accounts? #jsrailton
But think for a second about the perverse incentive for a platform struggling with revenue targets:
OK, so they are bots, but do we really want to proactively find & cull large swaths of paying accounts? #jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Folks asking: what's the point of mobs of bot nonsense?
Maybe testing? Maybe bad programming. Maybe it doesn't matter.
Because the *takeaway* is that obviously inauthentic networks are not getting spotted & taken down.
#jsrailton
Maybe testing? Maybe bad programming. Maybe it doesn't matter.
Because the *takeaway* is that obviously inauthentic networks are not getting spotted & taken down.
#jsrailton
06:28 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Lately I've felt the urge to post each time I pass a CAPTCHA.
Shouting my humanness amidst Twitter's bot-clamor. #jsrailton
Shouting my humanness amidst Twitter's bot-clamor. #jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Just zombies responding to zombies. I love chrismohney's take.
And when you do actually read a real popular post, you feel blue check bot accounts gumming up any possibility of actual conversation with generated garbage.
What a death spiral.
#jsrailton
And when you do actually read a real popular post, you feel blue check bot accounts gumming up any possibility of actual conversation with generated garbage.
What a death spiral.
#jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Twitter's AI bot problem:
Pic 1: spam account posts AI-generated *description* of an image without the image.
Pics 2-4
Swarms of blue-check verified bots reply with equally generated replies complimenting the nonexistent image.
h/t chrismohney #jsrailton
Pic 1: spam account posts AI-generated *description* of an image without the image.
Pics 2-4
Swarms of blue-check verified bots reply with equally generated replies complimenting the nonexistent image.
h/t chrismohney #jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
Global censorship in action.
And all of it to hide the misdeeds of a hack-for-hire firm.
Essential reporting by a_greenberg.👇 #jsrailton
And all of it to hide the misdeeds of a hack-for-hire firm.
Essential reporting by a_greenberg.👇 #jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
5/ Exactly this. 👇
We are collectively less secure.
And that includes governments.
When players like NSO proliferate the capability to become an advanced persistent threat to customers around the world.
#jsrailton
We are collectively less secure.
And that includes governments.
When players like NSO proliferate the capability to become an advanced persistent threat to customers around the world.
#jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
4/ NSO Group is again trying to rebrand as the 'good guys.'
And splashing out big on lobbying spend.
But latest double-helping of abuses, documented up to Fall 2023 should leave nobody fooled about the nature of their business.
#jsrailton
And splashing out big on lobbying spend.
But latest double-helping of abuses, documented up to Fall 2023 should leave nobody fooled about the nature of their business.
#jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
accessnow AmnestyTech citizenlab hrw OCCRP 3/ Some victims got infected with #Pegasus via zero-clicks (no trickery or click required, your phone is just remotely infected)
Others were targeted with 1-click attacks (click required to infect). Like this pretty intensive social-engineering over @
Others were targeted with 1-click attacks (click required to infect). Like this pretty intensive social-engineering over @
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
2/ The #Jordan investigation = collaboration led by accessnow, with amnestytech us citizenlab, hrw & OCCRP pitching in alongside local partners.
Unfortunately, the cases we collectively found are likely only the tip of this messy hack-berg.
Journalists = key target #jsrailton
Unfortunately, the cases we collectively found are likely only the tip of this messy hack-berg.
Journalists = key target #jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
INVESTIGATION: sprawling, relentless #Pegasus hacking of 🇯🇴Jordan-based civil society.
Media, lawyers, human rights workers among victims.
Including 🇺🇸US Citizen adamcoogle from hrw.
Both zero-click & 1 click attacks. 1/
READ at accessnow👇 #jsrailton
Media, lawyers, human rights workers among victims.
Including 🇺🇸US Citizen adamcoogle from hrw.
Both zero-click & 1 click attacks. 1/
READ at accessnow👇 #jsrailton
06:27 AM - Feb 05, 2024
2/ Putin's illegal invasion of #Ukraine triggered an exodus of artists, musicians & intellectuals.
This clearly drives the Kremlin nuts.
So they rely on friendly regimes & international machinations to try and bring them back home.
And chill the rest.
#jsrailton
This clearly drives the Kremlin nuts.
So they rely on friendly regimes & international machinations to try and bring them back home.
And chill the rest.
#jsrailton
05:07 PM - Jan 31, 2024
Meet Bi-2: some of the most popular rockers since the end of the USSR.
They're critical of the war & Putin is a snowflake.
So, Thai authorities arrested them & they face deportation to Russia.
Where they'll surely be punished for their words.
Shameful.
#jsrailton
They're critical of the war & Putin is a snowflake.
So, Thai authorities arrested them & they face deportation to Russia.
Where they'll surely be punished for their words.
Shameful.
#jsrailton
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05:07 PM - Jan 31, 2024
RT TheStalwart: Once again, the entire obsession with Pelosi's stock portfolio is just complete cope from dudes who are getting out-traded… #JohnJHarwood
03:03 PM - Jan 24, 2024
RT RpsAgainstTrump: GOP Sen. Susan Collins says she will not endorse former President Trump, even if he becomes the Republican Party’s nom… #JohnJHarwood
03:03 PM - Jan 24, 2024
RT @MuellerSheWrote : BREAKING: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has ADVANCED legislation to SEIZE Russian assets to fund Ukraine. htt… #JohnJHarwood
03:03 PM - Jan 24, 2024
"Perhaps Howard Stern said it best: 'The oddity is, the people Trump despises most love him the most.'
" 'The people who are voting for Trump for the most part...he'd be disgusted by them.'
"The tragedy is that they're not disgusted by him in return." #JohnJHarwood
" 'The people who are voting for Trump for the most part...he'd be disgusted by them.'
"The tragedy is that they're not disgusted by him in return." #JohnJHarwood
03:03 PM - Jan 24, 2024
RT QudsNen: BREAKING| Israel killed 40 civilians so far, 14 of whom were buried in an UNRWA shelter, in strikes on Khan Yunis in Gaza toda… #johncusack
02:57 PM - Jan 24, 2024
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02:51 PM - Jan 24, 2024
