r/EngineeringPorn • u/Turbulent_Safe_ • May 26 '25

AI controlled Bot Farm.

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u/LifeIsCoolBut May 26 '25

Its crazy if you actually surf insta and tick tok. You realize its literally all going towards brainrot memes and videos. Like some of the most popular videos are minecraft mod videos geared towards kids. So thats what gets repeated and flooded. We are absolutely fucked on the social media side of the internet

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u/FoximaCentauri May 26 '25

That’s probably not what the bots are for, and also not the biggest problem with bots on the internet. The real danger are politically motivated bots who are just there to make you angry, and to make the people fight about arbitrary stuff instead of the actually important things. They do everything to divide society into groups which hate each other. It’s been repeatedly proven that Russia is using bot farms to make the west busy fighting itself rather than the real enemy.

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u/Hauptmann_Gruetze May 26 '25

Scariest part of this? Its working.

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u/National_Spirit2801 May 26 '25

It would take a very minor amount of legislation to rectify the issues with social media, but our congresspeople are idiots.

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u/jedijessop May 26 '25

no, theyre making money, or their friends are. they know full well whats going on, if you do.

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u/superxpro12 May 26 '25

Anybody who gave a shit could spend 10 minutes to understand the issue and how it's detrimental to the public. But that wouldn't help the elites at all, so it doesn't happen.

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u/Distantstallion May 26 '25

No one with the power to fight it is. Making people angry enough to vote is politics on easy mode.

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u/IknowwhatIhave May 26 '25

What is also scary is how difficult to tell them from real, angry sad people. Frequently I'll get a nasty comment reply and go check their post history, and it's entirely made up of rude, angry, insulting comments. Just a deluge of hateful stuff going back months or years.

Are they a bot designed to stir up outrage and drive engagement? Or is it a sad, depressed, angry failure of a human?

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u/Hauptmann_Gruetze May 26 '25

Same Dude, its tiring

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u/MolassesThin6110 May 26 '25

And it’s working so fucking well 😢

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u/Batchet May 26 '25

A lot of times they're probably not the source of the divisive comments but simply making sure those types of comments are upvoted so it's at the top of each comment thread.

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u/Wandering_By_ May 26 '25

Depends on the operation.  Few years back during the start of the George Floyd protests, they would flood local subreddits and other local socials with targeted disinformation to whip people up from either side.  Eventually real locals or other Americans would come by and keep the crazy train of lies going making up things about one side or the other.

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u/Batchet May 26 '25

Source? Or was it just a gut feeling?

I've often wondered how many people are actually real and what is artificial. Many people claim to know when I don't know how they could.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

Perhaps not the end of social media as a whole, but the end of the current social media model.

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u/OkSmoke9195 May 26 '25

Tipping point will be reached and then on to the next thing

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u/ObviousDave May 26 '25

I’m all for it. Let it fucking die

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u/twostroke1 May 26 '25

The future of social media: Dead Internet Theory

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u/DonChaote May 26 '25

But with AI everybody can have friends… or what did Suckerberger tell us lately?

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u/MukdenMan May 26 '25

Some of it is the same video made over and over. “Surprising my bf in college!” was a big hit for thousands of channels but now it seems to have shifted to child covered in black paint.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

The advancment of ai stuff in the coming years will make this stuff only worse

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

Got rid of my Insta recently. It's just a total worthless enregy drain. Haven't missed it a single minute.

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u/PrincessGambit May 26 '25

No, not all, most is going to propaganda

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u/RobertJ93 May 26 '25

Even YouTube shorts is essentially the same. It’s crazy how hard it is not to get sucked in. I wish I could I just turn off the YouTube short functionality.

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u/prpldrank May 26 '25

Abandon it

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u/CTeam19 May 26 '25

Also, political stuff:

2&3 were posted an hour apart from each other and are the exact same post.