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ALL the other leftwing crap this 'bot' has posted for years on this account were not a problem. Only when her racist screed became inconvenient to the Left did she become a 'bot account'.

Trollhole says

ALL the other leftwing crap this 'bot' has posted for years on this account were not a problem. Only when her racist screed became inconvenient to the Left did she become a 'bot account'.

Good point. If you don’t like someone call them a bot or AI. The internet is so messed up these days it’s hard to work out what is true and what isn’t. As a rule of thumb if I can’t verify it for myself then I take it with a hefty pinch of salt.

One nice thing about having personally met a lot of the patrick.net regulars over the years is that I know that they are indeed real people.

This account is being called out by people not affiliated with Twitter as fake. If you fell for it, just know it's not the first time you've engaged with a bot.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/limitations-monday-july-3-2023-c?publication_id=463409&post_id=132754990&isFreemail=true

A quiet revolution is underway at Twitter; a revolution much more significant and much more real than the so-called Wagner uprising, and for much higher stakes. Over the last week, we’ve felt the side effects, such as Twitter’s annoying, brand-new requirement to have an account to view tweets. It took me a few days to put the pieces together, because these days nothing is ever as it seems. ...

In other words, there’s not even a ‘real’ model behind the fake Erica. She’s 100% artificially generated.

After the story began exploding all over Twitter, it suspended the fake Erica account. One supposes the Twitter team looked into her a little deeper and discovered Erica was really an AI body snatcher.

The fake account — which again, was verified — was very careful and very sophisticated. Reviewers noted that only 5% of its tweets were politically outrageous. The other 95% were just run of the mill, pro-democrat, liberal woke platitudes. ...

Now let’s connect the Erica dot to last week’s change in Twitter policy, a policy change immediately affecting many of our C&C readers who don’t have, and don’t want, Twitter accounts. On Saturday, Elon Musk publicly announced a controversial new Twitter policy: reading limits. ...

Twitter had noticed that there were increasingly massive amounts of these kinds of automated requests for user data happening all the time. Not only does it affect user privacy, but it drives up Twitter’s costs, because Twitter needs to rent bigger and faster servers to handle all that growing automatic demand on top of the normal, real live user demand. ...

Another clue appeared when a user mused on Saturday about how data scraping seems connected with the soaring increase of venture capital for Artificial Intelligence “large language models” (which is what ChatGPT is called), and Musk responded yesterday with a “bullseye” emoji...

At this point, you’re probably thinking, “that’s all fascinating Jeff but what does it have to do with Fake Erica and a Twitter revolution?” Hang in there, it all connects up.

This is where things get really interesting. A former State Department official, Mike Benz, published a self-interview tweet yesterday speculating how Twitter’s new rate limiting policy would hurt the intelligence agencies, and thus get Musk in trouble with people Chuck Schumer famously said have “six ways from Sunday to get at you.”

How would rate limits hurt the intelligence agencies? Benz speculated that the spooks are mainly the ones doing all the scraping, and are using the massive amounts of “scraped” Twitter user data to help censor Americans and stop them from thinking wrong. ...

Here’s how it probably works. First, spies and other clandestine government operators publish some new psyop using their network of AI-driven bot accounts — like Erica Marsh and her criticism of Ashli Babbitt, for example. Then the spooks can use their AI-based scraping tools to monitor and analyze millions of user responses in real time, as people click the like buttons, re-tweet things, and post their own tweets and thoughts.

Meanwhile the spooks are watching and testing whether their psyop is working or not. ...

People’s addiction to social media means spooks can manipulate folks at population levels and essentially control our thoughts. Need some riots? No problem. Spooks and other bad actors start pushing ugly tweets and Instagrams and Facebook posts about Supreme Court decisions into particular online communities, carefully measure the results, and keep modifying the messages until people are tossing Molotov cocktails down Target’s sneaker aisle.

It’s so simple.

But Twitter’s new rate limits have probably cut off the intelligence agencies’ ability to effectively use Twitter to control the public conversation while testing the results. Rate limits are the reason Twitter suddenly required user accounts to view tweets: because the social media giant needs to be able to throttle activity PER ACCOUNT, to identify and stop the automated data scrapers and bots.

It seems counter-intuitive that Twitter would want to REDUCE interaction. Twitter succeeds by getting more eyeballs. But that’s only true for REAL eyeballs, not fake AI eyeballs. From Musk’s point of view, in business terms, why should Twitter pay for the government’s massive data mining and thought control project?

Whatever is going on, whether Musk’s goal is to shut down government mass manipulation or just to get his server costs under control, either way, Twitter’s new rate limiting policy is political dynamite.

Nah - I think Musk is just trying to get more accounts to sign up.

I signed up with an account using mailintator and a fake name, just to see if I could do it. It was a pain to do though, I'll tell you that because it put me through 30 "are you human tests" and they were SLOW - about each one took 10 seconds to do at minimum, and the instructions aren't entirely clear or easy to understand.

All the intelligence agencies have to do is have more accounts and there's 40 FIB twats at Twitter anyhow. They're not there because it's a great opportunity to spread out and do different things.

Patrick says

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/limitations-monday-july-3-2023-c?publication_id=463409&post_id=132754990&isFreemail=true

That's interesting, Patrick: Red Queen evolutionary strategies as regards to Intel Agency interferences.

This is a precursor case for internet ID's. Because we have to know that you're who you say you are...

NuttBoxer says

This account is being called out by people not affiliated with Twitter as fake. If you fell for it, just know it's not the first time you've engaged with a bot.

Fell foe what? Accepting it is a bot just because some gaslighting dweebs say it is?

Trollhole says

NuttBoxer says

This account is being called out by people not affiliated with Twitter as fake. If you fell for it, just know it's not the first time you've engaged with a bot.

Fell foe what? Accepting it is a bot just because some gaslighting dweebs say it is?

It probably is. Who cares? If it is it will just be replaced

Trollhole says

Fell foe what? Accepting it is a bot just because some gaslighting dweebs say it is?

When you saw this account was labeled as AI, did you do any research to verify the person's existence outside of social media? Do you understand the strategy of create problem to implement desired change? Do you know anything about the push for internet ID's, or any global ID's? Or are you just pissed that someone may have tricked you?

Get over it, happens to most of us at some point.

NuttBoxer says

When you saw this account was labeled as AI, did you do any research to verify the person's existence outside of social media?

HOW are you going to verify it?? Is somebody going to track down the supposed person to their address, put up fliers all over town and ask "have you seen this woman - $1000 reward if you can identifier her", fly to the city or town, and track her back to her apartment?

NuttBoxer says

Do you understand the strategy of create problem to implement desired change? Do you know anything about the push for internet ID's, or any global ID's?

There will always, ALWAYS be bots because the main creators of them, are governments.

If you need an "internet ID" to connect to Facebook, Twitter, or Google - just don't use them.

People don't seem to understand still, it doesn't matter who says what, what matters is what is said.

Trollhole says

ALL the other leftwing crap this 'bot' has posted for years on this account were not a problem. Only when her racist screed became inconvenient to the Left did she become a 'bot account'.

It wasn’t “years” though According to Jeff Childers “Coffee & Covid”:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/limitations-monday-july-3-2023-c

But, dang it, I missed the one dead giveaway, the fact that her super-popular account was only just created a few months ago in September, 2022.

Why is anybody bothered even IF it was a bot account?

I would hope at this point, people realize propagandists in the United States working for the US government and the establishment, definitely exist. It's immoral, it's deceptive, it was once illegal - sounds like the intelligence agencies to me - par for the course.

These things have been around for at least 15 years. They weren't so prevalent on new sites, but they got prevalent pretty quickly. I ran into a propagandist about 9/11 on youtube - she was a "house wife". I was just stupid, I was paranoid and crazy - according to her. So, I asked to post a link on youtube to ANYTHING she commented on before the date of MY post, where she commented on anything else on youtube. I pointed her to a post I wrote like a year ago about some dog rescue thing.

She couldn't do it. In fact, every post she had made on that video, disappeared, along with her account.

Propagandist, but only I know what she said - all of her posts were deleted. Youtube doesn't allow quotes anymore, so SOME of what she wrote was preserved then. Isn't it weird that youtube doesn't all you to quote anything?

How does a person delete all their posts they ever made on YouTube - is that possible? Well, it's possible for Google to do. That was like 10 years ago.