Does it really apply if you don't do the bare minimum? I wouldn't complain if they were fighting automated building of sophisticated account networks that guide you towards some hidden ad. But until they do a pattern match on the most popular spam words used every day, Red Queen is not an issue.
I have found that they are pretty reliably hidden behind the "unsafe replies" section much of the time, so that are clearly able to identify most of them but are unwilling to actually ban them.
bots pay for blue checkmarks, and they'll pay to tweet too. twitter needs the money to stay afloat, and elon doesn't really have a reason to say no
his initial concern over bots was twofold: 1) he desperately needed a way to get out of a deal he made on ~vibes~ instead of due-diligence 2) elon was a mega-famous account. The #1 thing that impacts QoL for mega-famous accounts is a 24/7 firehose of bot mentions and replies
he's slowly getting there, one predictable mistake at a time. The only way to suppress bots / trolls is to have tiered permissions. X should be read only freemium, pay to post premium
I get a lot of spam on Twitter. I feel like you could eliminate a lot of it with basic heuristics -no AI required. Most of the bots that follow me or like my post are either trying to sell crypto or are scantly clad women. The bot accounts usually end with a lot of digits. The handles, accompanied with the fact that I’m overweight and not attractive, makes it easy to identify bots.
They know. One of their teams (x ai?) announced something recently including a joke about the pussy-in-bio spam - that's how aware they are. Yet, they won't apply the most basic filter possible.
Predictable Elon Musk dunking, but I'd like to see other people's ideas. Generative AI is an existential threat to social media. At least he's thinking about what to do about it.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 64.1 ms ] threadhis initial concern over bots was twofold: 1) he desperately needed a way to get out of a deal he made on ~vibes~ instead of due-diligence 2) elon was a mega-famous account. The #1 thing that impacts QoL for mega-famous accounts is a 24/7 firehose of bot mentions and replies
Once your inflow of new adopters trickles to a halt, your business is dead.
Elon Musk does absolutely nothing about bot spam after buying Twitter in hopes of not driving it's value down.
Naive Bayes. They're at the level where that would improve things. Start with basics before gen AI.
Not firing teams responsible for enforcing terms of service.
Not firing teams responsible for moderation.
Not destroying the purpose of user verification systems and turning them instead to a negligible revenue scheme.
Should I go on?
Rehire the content moderation personnel he fired after the acquisition?
I understand that cash is tight following the implantation of certain policy decisions so I’d probably undo those too.
I imagine large global brands pay more for ads than the gambling sites, crypto scams, and alibaba junk peddlers I get ads for nowadays.
Well done, Elon.