I check Facebook a few times a week mainly to stay updated on family and friends and to wish the occasional happy birthday (I’m not a heavy user). Meta aggressively pushes AI-generated “slop” reel videos in my feed, which I mostly ignore. It’s depressing that there must be an audience for this low-effort content. The videos recommended to me are often AI reels featuring obese people doing something “unexpected.” They’re not particularly interesting, and they feel like they’re mocking people with weight issues which isn’t cool.
> Fox News fell for a similar fake video, treating it as an example of public outrage over the abuse of food stamps in an article that has since been removed from its website.
Did they really "fall for it" or were they just laundering the intent to publish false information through incompetence?
All major communication forums on the internet have been mass manipulated/poisoned by countries across the world for well over a decade now. A huge chunk of all internet speech is inauthentic. In my mind, AI videos really don't degrade the situation much further. The internet as a communication medium has already been completely compromised for a long time.
What % of HN is bots/AI do we think? This is the only site I use that has any social part to it, and I'm beginning to think that many of the comments aren't real. I don't know if it's in my head - but it all feels off to me. Either that or it's just a different crowd from years ago.
easily 30-40%. you could see trends even as far back as 2020. same patterns as with reddit.
e.g. bunch of old accounts with random bursts of activity, often posting to old / stale threads (e.g. 2-3 days old, when no one is looking at them), and often saying generic one liners or regurgitating summarizations of top / most upvoted points.
except when the posts were about some hot topic, bet you can guess which ones...
AWS AI Researchers put bot traffic as high as 50% across the internet in this study from June 2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 22.1 ms ] threadDid they really "fall for it" or were they just laundering the intent to publish false information through incompetence?
e.g. bunch of old accounts with random bursts of activity, often posting to old / stale threads (e.g. 2-3 days old, when no one is looking at them), and often saying generic one liners or regurgitating summarizations of top / most upvoted points.
except when the posts were about some hot topic, bet you can guess which ones...
AWS AI Researchers put bot traffic as high as 50% across the internet in this study from June 2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749